How To Use Drop away In A Sentence

She stroked my hair and wiped a teardrop away from my cheek.
At the edge of town where the houses became scattered and the road started to drop away into a deep valley some one helloed behind him. Windy McPherson's Son
The writing house on the central peak, ringed by other peaks with valley around it and the narrow drop away to the sea in front, reminds again of a tongue in a surrounding landscape mouth.
By stepping through the reveal of Giacomo Rossi-Stuart's doppelgänger, I noticed that the green light that suddenly illuminates the side of his face flares up a beat or two after he turns to face the hero -- as if it was already on, waiting for a piece of cardboard to drop away, or a lighting "barndoor" to open and expose it. Archive 2007-01-28
The cliffs drop away below in a tumble of honeyed sandstone rocks, and below the sun glints off the Pacific Ocean.

The majority of students drop away from science.
Somehow that conditional clause seemed to drop away from most of the press reports.
And so he bade his ships drop away sternwards; and then Earl Eric lay broadside on. The Red True Story Book
A couple of miles off Punta Arena the water is said to drop away into 100 fathoms or 600-feet, and double that distance just beyond the Pulmo Shoals.
The cliffs drop away below in a tumble of honeyed sandstone rocks, and below the sun glints off the Pacific Ocean.
Long steep slopes drop away on either side and the long ridge you have just climbed is a reminder you have to return, together with a steep climb back on to the south top.
Here character, diction and motive come together, and all the preciousness and self-flattery drop away.
He caressed my cheek, then let his touch drop away. Arcane Circle
The more boring details drop away into a passacaglia's inevitable ground bass, whilst the exciting become magnified beneath a glass destructive of proportion and accuracy.