How to Use drop-off in a Sentence

drop-off

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• The Lyft/Uber pick-up and drop-off spots will get you the closest to the park.
  — Alexis Clinton, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
• There will be a valet lane and drop-off lane on Wells Street.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
• The road is paved, so the only challenge is the twists and turns (and steep drop-offs) along the way.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
• At the same time, the Dow suffered its worst one-week drop-off since 2023.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2025
• If not, use Earth911’s search tool to see if there is a drop-off nearby.
  — Treehugger Editors, Treehugger, 31 Mar. 2023
• As the transport nears the drop-off point, the ramp lowers and a drag parachute sucks the pallet out of the plane.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
• Rideshare and taxi: The drop-off and pickup spot will be at the corner of 10th and Polco Streets.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2024
• In several places the drop-off is straight down 2,000 feet.
  — Tom Stacer, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
• The exact reason for the home price drop-off is unclear.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
• Instead, the drop-off in meme stock shares happened in a matter of days.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 16 May 2024
• Further from the pavilion, plans for the parking lot call for a large space for drop-off.
  — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• At times, the trail itself could be less than four feet wide with sheer drop-off cliffs right next to us.
  — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• The hotel has an in-house car for local drop-offs and pickups.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
• Find your usual drop-off spot and walk with your child to where their class meets before the bell rings.
  — Contributing Writer, Orange County Register, 6 Aug. 2024
• The trip to the drop-off point – Kahekili Beach Park, just north of Lahaina – takes just over an hour.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• Police found a ledger with states written down for pick-up and drop-off sites for dogs.
  — Sarah Nelson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• While most aren’t set up for consumer drop-off, there is a search tool to filter for those that are.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2025
• This would include drop-off and pick-up times, Olsen wrote in an email to The Sacramento Bee.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
• Christmas trees do not need to be cut down for recycling at the drop-off.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Airports can still set pick-up and drop-off fees for customers’ trips.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• On their son’s first day at a new school, her friend Mr. Blasberg went with Ms. Zhukova to drop-off.
  — Caitlin Moscatello, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Where is the rideshare drop-off and pick-up area at Paycor Stadium?
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 24 July 2024
• Kids have an in-house ski school with convenient drop-off and pick-up right outside the door.
  — Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
• There are often nets and runaway sled ramps at the tightest turns and where there are steep drop-offs.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025
• Since the bookstore closed, the Hudsons have noticed a drop-off in the number of guests at their hotel.
  — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Plus, the drop-off spot must be within a store’s delivery zone.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 20 June 2023
• There was no drop-off by Stafford in the defeat, which ended when the Ravens returned a punt for a touchdown.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Donate and get a list of toy drop-off locations on the website.
  — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2024
• Or a tumbler stamped with your catchy tagline to show off during school drop-off and pickup?
  — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Country Living, 24 Feb. 2023
• The drop-off in travel from Canada to the United States comes amid a bubbling tit-for-tat trade squabble between the two nations.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025

drop off

2 of 2 verb

• The group, consisting of three adults and a child, was dropped off by the raft.
  — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
• Eminem has dropped off a pair of singles ahead of the project.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 July 2024
• In the video, the moose takes long steps past the school, walking by cars lined up to drop off children for the day.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Around the same time, the car’s owner was dropped off to the location by an Uber.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 29 May 2024
• Then his brother had dropped off González at an aunt’s house to sleep.
  — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Once all the blooms have dropped off, trim off the flower spike just above the second node (small bump) up from the base of the plant.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2023
• It was wheeled outside and dropped off in a nearby stream.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2024
• Carr, says Haggard, had just dropped off a fare when she was shot in her car.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• The twins were dropped off at about 9:30 a.m. Monday to the Detroit Police's 9th Precinct.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2023
• Three from last year dropped off and the cut-off to make the list increased to $1 billion from $960 million.
  — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Mail ballots must be dropped off at the polls by 8 p.m. on Election Day.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
• Home prices peak from May through August, then drop off.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• And that Alix Earle, is how moms dress for pick up and drop off . . .
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• Trees can be dropped off from Dec. 25 through Jan. 5 at the same locations as last year.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2024
• Gibson dropped off a package at a home on a dead-end road, Bates said.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023
• Before then, meals were driven to and dropped off at school each day.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
• Those who drop off weapons will also be asked to sign a release.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 18 Dec. 2024
• Door plugs are dropping off of Boeing 737 and small planes alike.
  — Angela Haupt, TIME, 10 May 2024
• Generally, the best prices tend to drop off once the flight is less than three weeks out.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2024
• Every time the milkman came to the house to drop off a two-quart glass bottle of milk, Scholl would keep the cap and put it on the wall.
  — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
• Seems like there could have been another round in between the first two to even out the drop off, yeah?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• Four of the men were dropped off at a hospital with gunshot wounds, Howard said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
• Salt can burn plant tissue and make branches and twigs drop off or dry out.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2025
• For a $25 fee, parents can drop off their kids at the children's club and enjoy a date night.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2023
• The munitions, both about 40 mm, were dropped off in a grocery bag.
  — Rhiannon Saegert, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2025
• Parents were given maps of the parking lots and plans for how to drop off children.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2023
• Carr, an Uber driver, dropped off a friend at the store moments before she was killed.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• Maybe they were even being dropped off from other cities.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Abrego-Garcia had been an alternate on the flight but moved up on the list as others were dropped off.
  — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
• Simmons would do her daily routine, drop off her children at school and spend time at a nearby library or park until school was over.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2025