How to use "dropping" in a sentence

This will be quicker than dropping on to the trail and climbing back up again

Maybe someone's just dropping a series of hints, trying to wake me up to the fact that Danny isn't dead."

The air temperature was dropping precipitously.

"How'd you get in here?" the older guard asked, dropping his weapon as he'd been ordered

The storm had left the sky clear, and over the smoke of the burning land the tiny bright light of Mars was dropping into the west, when a soldier came quietly into my garden