11.   When I let go of her hand, it dropped like a stone.

12.   The meteors drop by like corks.

13.   But he was speaking now, the words dropping like hard pellets into her mind.

14.   Ruth dropped like a stone into the nearest available armchair.

15.   But she just said it like if he drops down like Chrissie you know what would happen see?

16.   And his officials surely knew that tax receipts were dropping like a stone even as they were reassuring a docile Congress that everything was just fine.

17.   And in a year when Republicans were dropping like flies, she ran the best race in the state.

18.   Back in the old days, when people were dropping like flies, there was real fear.

19.   Baker dropped like a stone this year, reporting out of shape and then getting hurt.

20.   Before Bernie can lay his hands on the priceless tome, however, guests begin dropping like characters in an Agatha Christie novel.