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.
• 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
• Each team is asked to reserve a fourth member in case of any dropouts.
  — Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, 25 June 2019
• The pilot-study dropout who tried to take apart the gaming system?
  — Sarah Deweerdt, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2018
• 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
• The two Stanford dropouts, both 23, are the founders of Brex, one of the hottest young companies today.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• 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
• At least one of the dropouts has not given up completely, though.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Ric Fulop, who was then a 26-year-old college dropout, knocked on his door.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The dropout issues have vexed Ryzen customers for months, with no seeming rhyme or reason for the cause.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 Mar. 2021
• This is commonly referred to as the S-gene dropout issue.
  — Renée Onque, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• At each stage, judges vote on a dropout, and girlfriends have to bet on her own boyfriend or another’s boyfriend to keep the money and win the prize.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• The dropout rate is around 18 percent, and just three in 10 students graduate in four years, about half in six years.
  — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• This comes in addition to the district’s second-lowest dropout rates in years.
  — Ikram Mohamed, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024

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drop out

2 of 2 verb

• The cart drop came just as Chesterfield — the area's largest county — dropped out of the regional recycling collective altogether.
  — Karri Peifer, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
• After Biden, 82, dropped out, the campaign struggled to distinguish Harris from the administration's record and poor view by the public.
  — Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024