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- adjective Not
dropped
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Examples
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The British officials, and actually some American officials on the ships, the carriers in the Gulf region, are saying that some aircraft are returning with their bombs unexploded, undropped.
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The slaves left the plough in the furrow, and the corn undropped, and hurried home.
The Love Story of Abner Stone Edwin Carlile Litsey 1922
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While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears,
Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905
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Canada's CF-18s brought their bomb load back undropped Thursday and have yet to fire.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PAUL KORING 2011
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They were trying to do this with very poor navigational aids, frequently discovering that planes were returning with bombs undropped as they couldn't find the target.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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There also was a control carrot, which remained undropped.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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I have to say my jaw stayed undropped throughout all this.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2009
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“Father told me once that she was at a school where an undropped ‘g’ was worse than a dropped ‘h’.
Maid in Waiting 2004
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"These things happen in threes" a title informs us, and writer-director Frank V. Ross uses this undropped shoe the same way his friend and fellow director Joe Swanberg (
Chicago Reader 2010
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