What is "dropped out"

Usage examples of "dropped out".

Grant turned into the enemy attack and tried his guns again, but though his burst stitched across one wing the Russian dropped out of the line of fire, trailing smoke from the damaged wing but still in action.

Ahead the Tatars twisted and writhed, mouthed tortured cries, then dropped out of their saddles to lie limply on the ground as if the arrows aimed at the master had instead struck each to the heart.

He squirmed against the porous balloon, edged sideways, and finally dropped out on his head.

He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes.

I dropped out of college very early and began to write, pursuing my interest in philosophy on my own.

The clapper dropped out shortly after it was cast, but the bell still tolled out some tremendously sonorous silences every hour.

Then, following some unseen little imperfection in the stone platform, veered away until it dropped out of sight over the edge.

After all, who would back a sixty-eight-year-old who had been passed over for the top job at Burlington Industries fifteen years earlier and who had dropped out of the corporate business world to start a winery in Southern California?

It was the Sphinx's riddle of the nineteenth century, and when I dropped out the Sphinx was threatening to devour society, because the answer was not forthcoming.

As they converged towards it the slower ponies dropped out, and the weaker ones were crushed to the rear.

The Nagus should have dropped out shortly after Quark shut down the cheating system.

If she dropped out of therapy, it was out of my hands, and on some level that didn’.

Suddenly the elevator dropped out from underneath him and he was holding on by his elbows, feet scrabbling against the slick shaft walls.

But the wood was in places so much decayed that some of the bolts had dropped out, and he felt sure of being able to open it.