How to Use mic drop in a Sentence

mic drop

noun
  • The week ends with a mic drop — or at least a one-liner.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Talk about a mic drop from about 5,440 feet up.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The week began with a billionaire-sized pop culture mic drop.
    — Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Viewers at home can vote for the mic drop winner among the four contestants chosen by judges.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For those familiar with the television icons, that would be a mic drop moment.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 15 May 2026
  • And his Yankee Stadium mic drop will be there in video, screaming from flat-screens everywhere.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The restaurant’s fan favorite might well be the garden peas served with grated fresh summer truffle and cheese from Danish cows—this dish is a mic drop, pure and simple.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While Duncan blackmailing his doctor would have made for a perfectly satisfying conclusion, the episode packs one more mic drop.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Which is what guides her, and her two siblings, to storm the event and take its guests hostage — while Tyler is in the bathroom, licking his wounds after his mic drop moment goes horribly viral.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The real mic drop moment arrives on the 22nd, when Libra Season begins and Mars enters Scorpio on the very same day.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
  • So far, coach Michael Bublé used his mic drop on Max Chambers — and coaches Reba McEntire and Snoop Dogg are left to decide.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Her answer landed like a mic drop at Golden Eve, a new primetime special airing Thursday on CBS that celebrates work defined by excellence and lasting impact.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Eagles win feisty Super Bowl rematch The Kansas City Chiefs’ attempts to avenge their Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles essentially ended with a mic drop.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The North Shore is the last word in beaches, really—a mic drop of sand-meets-sea around every bend in the road—and has been immortalized in films from South Pacific (1958) to The Descendants (2011), making the island an open secret in Hollywood.
    — Meredith Bryan, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2016

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