How to Use dropout in a Sentence

dropout

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • High school dropout Bill Smith is worth more than $400 million from his startups Shipt and Landing.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The hermit of Mount Athos and the millionaire recluse in his Caribbean hideaway are both dropouts.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The high dropout rate means that everyone is in search of the one thing that will reach escape velocity.
    — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • After all, what does a high school dropout from Des Moines, Iowa, have to do with a college grad from Boston, even if they were born on the same day?
    — Mauro F. Guillén, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Skinner said children with a lot of suspensions have the highest dropout rates.
    — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But stay for the moving account of how a college dropout with a big idea turned his vision into an empire—and changed the country and the world in the process.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In the study, some cannabis users experienced side effects at times severe enough to cause dropout from the studies.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • By 1950, attendance was so universal that those who weren’t in school were called dropouts.
    — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, owners will ship back a seat clamp and a special lug from the rear dropout of the bike, rendering the bike unrideable.
    — Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Grim stuff, but the dropout, Strasberg, sat rapt at every performance.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • An officer is killed at a pawnshop along with the store’s owner, and the team tries to figure out why a recent college dropout is tied to the crime.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • More of a beauty school dropout than an Australian exchange student?
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2022
  • El Salvador has sky-high rates of femicides (the killing of a woman due to her gender) and worrying school dropout numbers.
    — Caterina Morbiato, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Levine, a college dropout, was one of several retail founders who ushered in a boom of stores selling low-cost goods.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
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drop out

2 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Candidates who lost the endorsement race dropped out of the race.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • According to the Women’s Sport Foundation, girls start dropping out of sports by age 14 at twice the rate of boys.
    — Erin Strout, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • As the years dragged on, momentum faded and people started dropping out of the rent strike.
    — Curbed, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Following his tragic death, Spearritt, 42, dropped out of the tour.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Since falling out of the starting lineup, Jovic has also dropped out of the Heat’s rotation.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Mike Pence is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Buffett dropped out of Auburn, often journeying to New Orleans to busk in its streets.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Once girls in my community are married, they are forced to drop out of school to take care of the household and start a family.
    — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Others have dropped out of school to make a living on the street, returning to their homes and families only rarely.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Leonhardt spoke with women who’ve decided to drop out of the workforce rather than put more than 25% of their paycheck toward the cost of care.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The United States has dropped out of the top 20 happiest countries for the first time, with Americans now occupying the 23rd spot on the list.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • But the house was too chaotic to focus on studies, and without support, Johnson dropped out.
    — Gail Cornwall, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Today, Ute test scores are the lowest in the state, and the students drop out of school at a higher rate than any other demographic.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • Trump is still running for president There are no credible news reports that Trump has dropped out of the race.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Then a relatively unknown artist, she was added to the bill at the last minute after Stevie Wonder dropped out.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • Recent data suggests that Bell isn’t alone in his response to simply drop out.
    — Jordan P. Hickey, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Even before the vote, Haley faced calls from many prominent Republicans to drop out of the race.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024

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