How to Use dropout in a Sentence

dropout

1 of 2 noun

• The program is designed for dropouts who wish to get high school equivalency certificates.
• The national high school dropout rate is slightly below 6%.
  — Eric Stirgus, ajc, 22 Jan. 2020
• The story centers Cassie, a med school dropout who lives with her parents and works at a quaint coffee shop.
  — Joi Childs, Teen Vogue, 30 Jan. 2020
• In a broader sense, though, the high number of middle-to-working-class dropouts reflects a wisdom of crowds.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
• In addition, a few cannabis users experienced side effects at times severe enough to cause dropout from the studies.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Jan. 2020
• As a result, the frame stays light while providing rigidity in areas such as the bottom bracket, dropouts, and head tube.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024
• The last presidential dropout actually predates the modern two-party system.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 July 2024
• This is, at least, the perspective of the novel’s narrator, Lizzie, a grad-school dropout living at the frontier of gentrifying Brooklyn.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
• The investigative team is also still looking into an issue that led to multiple dropouts in communications between the ground and spacecraft during key moments of the flight.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2020
• Out of the profusion of statistics that support this fact, the most telling may be that math performance by American high school graduates is roughly the same as most high school dropouts in other countries.
  — Sian Beilock, Quartz, 19 Feb. 2020
• Complaints included network dropouts, recurrent outages and consistently bad phone signals.
  — Elizabeth Carr-Ellis, The Week Uk, theweek, 5 Sep. 2024
• Before the fame, Wright was a high school dropout who dealt drugs for a living.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Later, Trump gave Tim Scott, another of the dropouts, the chance to repeat the homage.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
• His group believes the dropout rate has spiked this year and will remain high for years to come.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2021
• His group believes the dropout rate has spiked this year and will remain high for years.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2021
• The dropout rate in the United States was on a steady decline in the years before the pandemic.
  — Evan McMorris-Santoro, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
• In the mid-1970s, a high school dropout could earn almost three-quarters of the U.S. median wage.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Franklin was a high school dropout from the blue-collar town of Dundalk, Maryland.
  — Olive Fellows, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2022
• Bernstein, long of hair and sloppy of dress, a college dropout, is something out of The Front Page.
  — Joshua Benton, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
• Lily Collins stars as Ellen, a 20-year-old dropout struggling with anorexia.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
• By then, Cecilia, a high school dropout, hadn’t been in a classroom for more than a decade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• Iowa State and North Carolina State are the week’s other dropouts.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
• Lane was the oddest of the three, though, says Scott: an eighth-grade dropout who’d quit school to read Mein Kampf and trade firearms online all night.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• The Harvard Business School dropout comes in at No. 14, down seven spots from last year.
  — Forbes Press Releases, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Part of what skews the representation of Ute students in high school is the dropout rate.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2023
• The state has some of the lowest graduation rates and highest dropout rates.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• The new man, George Dyer, really was a burglar, though, and, like Lacy, a sort of dropout.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• The lone dropout this week is Florida, edged by a single poll point by Georgia Tech for the 25th spot.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
• Knutson, a 28-year-old bartender and college dropout, can vouch for it.
  — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• Oklahoma has one of the highest dropout rates in the nation and some of the lowest reading and math test scores.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024

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drop out

2 of 2 verb

• So tune in, and drop out of 2024 for the spin of the dial through summers past.
  — Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, 29 May 2024
• But when her father died, Feng was forced to drop out of school and help on the farm.
  — Deborah Kim, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2021
• Min dropped out of school in the ninth grade and took a job as a secretary.
  — Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 3 May 2024
• In 2015, she was forced to drop out of Dancing with the Stars due to blood clots in both of her lungs.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• What are some of those and why did some states drop out of this program?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• Smith wasn’t the only one to drop out of the performance.
  — Vulture, 6 Feb. 2023
• Only one team, Utah, is slated to drop out of the top 10.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
• Cora Mae dropped out of school and returned to Ohio to mourn.
  — Joshua Kagavi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• Sony dropped out before the pandemic and skipped the 2019 event.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The story does follow two 16-year-old girls who drop out of high school to work in this world.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2023
• He was adopted at an early age and dropped out of high school.
  — Angela Hart | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
• As a teenager, Wahlberg dropped out of the ninth grade and didn't attend college.
  — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• Likewise, Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College in the 1970s after just six months at the school.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• My hope is that Biden drops out and someone like Gretchen Whitmer steps in.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024
• Kennedy dropped out of the race in late August and threw his support behind Trump.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2024
• Weeks after a poor performance, Biden dropped out of the race.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2024
• This year is different for Democrats since Biden dropped out of the race in July.
  — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2024
• Feist played two dates with the band before deciding to drop out.
  — Derek Hawkins, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• Candidates who lost the endorsement race dropped out of the race.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• Plus, only about 5% dropped out from the MDMA groups in both trials.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 June 2024
• As Christie’s theory of the case has crumbled, pressure on him to drop out has grown.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• Despite facing calls to drop out of the race, Haley vowed to stay in the race through at least Super Tuesday.
  — Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
• Biles stunned the world by dropping out of the team competition after a fluke vault.
  — Heather Long, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• Following a third straight loss, Clemson will likely drop out of the Top 25.
  — Bob Ferrante, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• Jenny Roe is no longer part of the case after dropping out, her attorneys said, from the stress of it.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Steely Dan has reportedly dropped out of a few of their tour dates with the Eagles due to illness.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
• The longer the pause between basket and payment, the bigger the attrition rate of customers who drop out.
  — Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• In March, Murphy dropped out of the Senate primary race.
  — Susan Davis, NPR, 4 June 2024
• Paulson broke a little bit of news by saying that Claire Foy was originally set to play Margaret but dropped out.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
• Variety previously reported that Halle Berry, who was previously attached to star, had dropped out of the series back in July.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024