How To Use Drip In A Sentence
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In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
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Jake changes overnight from drippy layabout to high roller.
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It will thicken as it sits and the liquid drips through.
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Don't be such a drip! Come and join in the fun.
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Visitors are also to be told not to touch wound dressings, drips and monitors of the person they are visiting.
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Spittle and blood spattered his lips, dripping in my mouth.
Brush of Darkness
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The nurse tried to catch drips before they hit the bedspread and wiped his chin after every other spoonful.
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Mild abrasives are used to scour pots and pans, oven interiors, and drip pans.
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But I have to say, I did fast forward through that dreadful speech by the odious brother and through the drippy prayers from the drippy archbish.
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She shaped the space with graceful curves, amended the soil with compost, and installed drip irrigation.
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Keep drip tray and oven clean and free of crumbs, grease and particles.
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But the detailed financial information that will be dripped out in coming weeks means they are also going to have to spend some time explaining the past.
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Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating.
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Skim the fat from pan juices, and reduce the drippings by boiling them down to a delicious sauce.
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Mound soil into foot-tall beds, then lay drip tubing or soaker hoses down the center.
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The sludge from the bottom of the swamp that the dredge hauls up dripping and oozing at least has substance: you can dry it out, look at it through a microscope, describe it, or flush it down the toilet.
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Even as he watched, a droplet of water dripped heavily down from a stalactite far overhead, landing in the pond with fat, lazy ripples.
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The little girl has dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is confined to a wheelchair and needs 24-hour care.
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To make sure your system operates efficiently, examine it frequently, checking for leaks, clogs, or misdirected sprinklers or drip-emitters.
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The Malleswaram market in the new parking complex plan has a basement, ground floor, mezzanine, three floors and a terrace across 70,000 sq ft, as does the Seshadripuram market.
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Water was dripping onto the floor.
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I stayed there for three days, until the snow began to melt, dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof.
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There is a splendid tale of the latter, his pen dripping in irony and vitriol, composing a letter to the United board congratulating them on their ground improvements in the aftermath of his own promises to build a new stadium.
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Eliminates drips, mess, and pot-life problems of liquid epoxy.
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A small amount of urine drips constantly from your kidneys to your bladder through tubes called ureters.
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He pictured it as a liquid fiery ball, constantly dripping flames into no particular direction due to lack of gravity.
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Just inside the gates, an overalled gardener with a gentle face is poking insincerely at the dripping rhododendrons with a pair of secateurs.
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Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
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Underneath the lamp is a great saucer to catch the oil which drips from it.
The Eskimo Twins
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Sounds extreme, or would extreme be a saline drip over the lunch interval?
Times, Sunday Times
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After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming.
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I'd just spent fifteen minutes stripping all the meat left over on the chicken carcass I'd roasted for our dinner yesterday in preparation for a top-crust chicken and mushroom pie for today and my hands were dripping with grease and gunge.
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Turn the rod a quarter turn every ten minutes for an hour to avoid any dripping.
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She was hot and sweat dripped into her eyes.
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The emission hung dripping over the river like mist and in the forest like ground fog.
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The skittering streaks and brushy splashes of color - punctuated by incidental drips and blobs - tend to remain discrete, but when they are allowed to run together, the effect is spectacular.
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Still, even as he ran to the car, dripping sweat and bleeding from the gash in his forehead, with the river already up to the wheel wells, he realized that the choices he had just made said something about who he was.
Publication of 3rd place string of 10
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Mine are thin nylon, easy to wash, drip-dry, non-iron, practical, cheap.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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I put some plastic buckets on the floor to catch the drips.
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Water is dripping from the roof.
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the constant sound of dripping irritated him
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As Mr. Adams dons trail clothes—"shirt with dozens of pockets, drip-dry pants that zip off into shorts, floppy hat with a cord pulled tight under the chin"—he realizes, too late, that he looks as though he is trick-or-treating as Ernest Hemingway.
In a Lost City, Finding Yourself
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The fast-acting toxin can be sprayed into a victim's face or dripped into food or water.
The Sun
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A stone lion's head, which seems to float above a potted plant, drips water into the pool.
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My white bikini was brown and dripping.
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She came to the party dripping with gold .
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He looked even worse than before, only this time he had beads of sweat dripping down his sallow skin and his nostrils were flared in his over-large nose.
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Failure to check the street or driveway for dripping antifreeze, which is poison for pets, is the cause of another common holiday pet problem.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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It appears that there was a slight leak right from the beginning, just a tiny drip but anyone who's been around kerosene will know that a tiny drip makes an enormous pong.
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Whenever negativity makes us drip, inspiration creates a flip from negative to positive. RVM
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But the running, the vitamin drips and disciplined approach to eating are borne stoically.
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The room was completely silent other than the sound of dripping water from a corner of the room.
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SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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One side effect of the New Order was the ending of a quadripartite agreement between East African Airways, BOAC, Central African Airways and South Africa Airways.
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He was expected to be blind, deaf, unable to speak, and quadriplegic.
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An egg had been thrown at their front door, the yolk dripping down the glass panel.
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Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.
Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
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Some of them had their hands dripping with glue as they pasted old papers onto clay sculptures.
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He dived into the water and hit a sandbank and was rendered a quadriplegic.
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Put it back in the basket, and into some sort of container to catch further drippage, and refrigerate.
Toast:
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I bit my lip as I noticed that his hair was wet but not dripping, as if he'd just shaken the water droplets out.
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The pipe is dripping .
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Rational Review
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It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches.
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The devices might allow quadriplegics to move limbs again by sending signals from the brain to various muscles.
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Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and dripping — that is, eightpenny-worth of food.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature.
The Times Literary Supplement
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From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
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Jillian and Graham sat on either side of a silver-plated candelabrum, its twin red candles dripping wax onto the paper tablecloth, empty coffee cups in front of them.
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Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.
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The bronze bass-relief upon the monument, made from the working drawing furnished by Mr. Dripps, is an exact representation of the locomotive when it arrived in America.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
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She had spotted him sitting in one corner, dark except for the candle on the table, which was dripping hot wax onto the rough, wooden table.
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To investigate this possibility, a simple system can be designed to generate drip trajectories where the degree of chaos can be tuned.
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Do not cover drip tray or any part of the oven with metal foil.
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Some were histrionic tragic performances dripping with sensibility.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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From somewhere -- he couldn't tell where -- came the minute plink of dripping water.
GRACE
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Lucrezia now appears to be less the bride of Bartolomeo than the bride of Christ – the red of her dress matching the blood dripping from the base of the cross.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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Each plant has one drip line, with the exception of cucumbers, which have three lines due to their large leaf surface area that loses more water than do the tomatoes and peppers.
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That horror films are mainstream in cinema is now a given, and whatever cul-de-sac horror literature finds itself in is the one its publishers put it in by swaddling it all in shiny black covers, adorned with skulls and snakes and rats and typefaces dripping blood …
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He plays a quadriplegic who is paralysed from the neck down.
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“But the men have to understand that they may not waste even a lump, drop, or drip of coal, lamp oil, pyroligneous fuel, or ether for the spirit stoves.”
The Terror
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Beyond, a party had scaled the wall, and there the fight was hand to hand -- with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity!
Darkness and Dawn
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We have recently installed push button taps to stop dripping and wastage, and now they are looking at introducing water hogs for the toilet cistern to save on water.
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Time to refigure your dosage as some sort of drip/pain pump.
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Better to admit what I was doing than let him think I had postnasal drip.
Going Too Far
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A horned and fanged bilat, its talons and the corners of its mouth dripping gore, a creature to whom the term nightmarish truly applied.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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But some of the silk eveningwear was fit for the most glamorous of parties, apron bibs floating across the chest then twisting into straps over the shoulders and asymmetrically across the back before dripping into a train.
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SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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But those philosophies are being expressed in drips and drabs.
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
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Or, perhaps, the bard received inspiration by drinking magic water from the fountain called Hippocrene, or the skaldic mead which dripped from the moon.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Both horse and rider were dripping with sweat within five minutes.
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Elsewhere he emerges limp and dripping from a lake, the opposite of a triumphant James Bond coming to shore.
Meet the best new artists in Britain
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The waterfalls were crystal clear, while elegant pavilions stand under trees that drip with bright red flowers.
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A porch extended from the kitchen to a trellised walk dripping wisteria in the spring.
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Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan.
Mary Anerley
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As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep, dark paradoxes.
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Despite a successful career his drinking increased and, in despair after his wife threw him out, he connected himself to a drip designed to kill.
Times, Sunday Times
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My voice was dripping with sarcasm, however he didn't seem to notice.
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There will be some shiny drippy marks that look almost like varnish on the rough edges of the slab if the stone is resined.
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A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
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I am not gor them using DNC money however, which could dripple the Dems in Congressional/Senate Races.
State-Run, Party-Funded Primary Being Floated In Michigan
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This is a sentence that, in my dotage, is far less likely to pass my lips and fingertips than it once was, back when I was positively dripping with vim and vigour.
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Water is dripping from the faucet
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The segments ready to be painted are lined with paper gutters to catch any drips.
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When we got home Harry Cat did the ‘Give me a treat, then’ dance on the counter top and Dolly the Mega-Cat sat on the drainer watching the tap drip into the basin.
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Brush the potatoes with a little melted butter or dripping.
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Back at the Hub, the Thursday night rehearsal breaks for coffee and everyone swarms towards the teacups neatly stacked at the back of the hall amid the dripping brollies and discarded coats.
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The spring water was dripping from 10 pairs of stalactites, each over 100 metres in length.
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I've never read such dripple in all my lfe as most of the posts here.
Hillary Clinton chokes up in CNN interview
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The twist is that the handle bends round underneath to form a coaster to collect any drips.
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The pan drippings gave gravies and soups a deliciously rich background of flavor.
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A strategic bucket was stopping the drips of water plopping on their heads.
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A chilly wind penetrates the walls of the shelter and rain drips through a hole in the ceiling.
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The northern side is riven with corries, and in winter the spectacular rock faces can drip with ice.
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I dislike the acts who hang on to the curtains, dripping sweat and beg you to applaud their efforts.
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It's amazing the impact a cracked light switch, dripping tap, or dirty grouting can have on the unforgiving eye.
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He was taken to hospital for blood tests and given a course of antibiotics through a drip.
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Confused, I eased myself from the water and walked round the pool edge, flabby and dripping.
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Most of the images show some pretty gnarly zombie make-up work that promises to be even drippier, ooey-gooey, and bloodier after some post-production effects are introduced.
First Images From Frank Darabont’s ‘The Walking Dead’ Arrive Online
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Her hair and all of her clothes dripped water, but she didn't care this time.
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The chips, fried in dripping, were better than the cemented fish they accompanied.
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That door was flung back, and in the square of dripping darkness stood Creed Bonbright, his face death white, his eyes wide and fixed, the rain gemming his uncovered yellow hair.
Judith of the Cumberlands
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For some who have seen the entire episode develop, it practically drips with an uneasy feeling.
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Sustained by the mist from the falls, it drips with epiphytes - mosses, ferns, aroids, orchids.
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He frowned, turning to her, the spatula in his hands dripping small amounts of pancake batter.
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Each is protected by a layer of zinc, which drips on to the ground when it rains.
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The twist is that the handle bends round underneath to form a coaster to collect any drips.
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She was new to being a dog owner and somewhere in the middle of telling her this and that about Buddy and Sweets and discussing everything else under the sun, I forgot I wasn't wearing a bra and had a dripple of Noxema on my shirt.
Haloaskew Diary Entry
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I felt my heart leap in my chest as my eyes sought out a dripping wet sylph sitting in a corner.
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Stripped to a pair of cotton trousers, with a dripping cutlass in one hand and a Colt's revolver in the other, an adventurer at the head of a bunch of dogs as desperate as himself fought his way across the reeking decks of a Chinese junk, to close in single combat with a gigantic one-eyed pirate who stood by the helm with a ring of dead men about him and a great two-handed sword upheaved ....
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
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Is he dripping with charm, style and panache as well?
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You can immersion dye, hand paint, drip color onto yarn, overdye already colored yarn, make self-striping yarn.
About.com Knitting
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Tessa was drenched completely; Clarissa exclaimed in horror at her sopping dark locks and little pinafore that was dripping on the floor.
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Abasio found Bear with his nose in a bucket set beneath a dripping crevice in the moss-grown wall.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Frothing and foaming and using words dripping with bile and hatred.
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Dripping gold chains, chunky gold rings, badly fitting tracky bottoms, tattoos allover her.
Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The naan bread should drip with garlic butter, the chicken glisten with chopped coriander and ghee.
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Slice onion, separate into rings and saute in drippings; remove from pan and set aside ...
Venison Liver and Onions!!!
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He is now quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair.
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They lay under ropes, strung up to hold saline drips.
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A blue substance churns and drips through a tube from one chamber to another.
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The settlement is geared towards looking after this person who might be quadriplegic for the rest of their lives.
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He looked up at her, tongue lolling out, ice cream covering his muzzle, sweat dripping from his fur in several places.
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It's a syrupy, drippy, cloyingly sweet story of a son's enduring love for his troubled father.
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Always aware of its own absurdity, the scripts positively dripped with knowing pop-culture references and side-splitting asides.
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I grabbed my water bottle, stuck my finger in to wet it, and then dripped a small amount on my arm.
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The rain-water dripped through a crack on the ceiling.
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These phrases, and the condescension dripping from the article generally, can easily be removed without losing anything.
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If I were you, I'd hang that sweater on the line and let it drip-dry.
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Mostly because I found Romeo & Juliet kind of drippy in high school.
AP English and literary knowledge
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But the procedure kept being postponed and he suffered for 96 hours with no food and just a saline drip for nourishment.
The Sun
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And sometimes turkeys will give you a really rich looking dripping.
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Use dripless candles if you’d like to keep him bald, otherwise, give him pure white locks, beeswax locks, or hair in several shades of the rainbow.
Baby Candle Head
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Dripping with potential but too young to realize the extent of possibilities that lie before us, life can easily seem overwhelming, paralyzing us with fear.
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Smiling nurses buzzed around the beds changing drips, washing patients and preparing some for further operations.
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The pipette was attached to the test tank 2 cm above the water surface, creating a perturbation on the surface when water was dripped into the aquarium.
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Great stalactites hung from the roof and dripped water upon the floor, on which numerous small stalagmites were forming, where they had not been crumbled away by the passage and repassage of sleighs.
Jacqueline of Golden River
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Some drip, some trickle or dribble whereas some sound like a natural brook.
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If they'd fix one leaky tap that's been dripping for at least 9 years next to the church we'd probably save on a load of water expenses!
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I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
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Clear and bright pupil, the MI, long eyelash tremble slightly, white flawless skin with light pink, thin lips like rose petals delicate drips.
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The upper stage is relieved by a pointed window, of two lights, on each side, the dripstone of each terminating in heads.
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Dripped onto powder eyeshadow, this makes the formula creamier and the colour more intense.
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It looked like some very convoluted frozen drippiness in ice, the size of a very large room.
Anti
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Wrapped in a towel, dripping water onto the sea-grass, I traipse to the kitchen and switch on the kettle.
CHAMELEON
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Melt the beef dripping or lard in the hot tray, then add the parsnips and season with salt and pepper.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her guitar work is raw and drips with attitude, while her singing bubbles with personality, passion and sensitivity.
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Melvin's words, sweet as they are, are dripping with twelve-step rhetoric.
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When it rained the smallest drops of water could drip on your body through the wicker.
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Jill dripped her words with syrup and the sweetness in her tone made the guard nauseous.
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The gravy dripped on to the wooden table and on to my lap, the hot grease sinking into the blue cloth of my kirtle.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Adrianne spat, venom dripping from her words.
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The canvas featured an erect penis and a crucifix with what appeared to be semen dripping from it.
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Except, there was the sound of a steady drip and an overwhelming feeling of peace so intense he actually panicked.
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There are pleached trees laden with apples and a huge fig tree drips with almost-ripe fruit.
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In winter, sea frets spread like smoke across the bare soil, the few trees drip with damp, and the occasional farmworker on a bike is the only movement in the ancient, narrow lanes.
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Another problem: Doctors simply don't think to ask older patients about allergies or postnasal drip, which could be chaining people to their homes and their tissues.
Need a Tissue?
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The milk dripped faster in response, then suddenly the areole around the nipple contracted and the milk spurted out in a tiny jet of surprising force.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines.
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To my amazement, they were burning brightly as the rain fell and water dripped from the ash trees.
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Instinctively the kid jumps to his feet, water dripping from his face, and puts up his gloved fists.
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The cold tap dripped into the stone sink at long, regular intervals.
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The crease-resistant qualities and their "drip dry" washing facility, made many rave about synthetic fabrics.
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Before thy eyes there would have been hurling of ribs and hoofs this way and that; and strips of flesh, all blood-bedabbled, dripped as they hung from the pine-branches.
The Bacchantes
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Peter spread his knees and allowed the blood to drip between his legs and stain the stair carpet.
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Then she added yesterday: 'Great in hospital on a drip.
The Sun
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For example, improperly drained drip pans on air conditioning units, and standing water in humidifiers and dehumidifiers, can grow bacteria or mold.
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The medics attached drips and gave intravenous painkillers to the two men who would live.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clear and bright pupil, the MI, long eyelash tremble slightly, white flawless skin with light pink, thin lips like rose petals delicate drips.
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One day, the ten day of ten money(sentence dictionary), money. Little strokes fell great oaks. Dripping water wears through a stone.
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The condition is called misophonia -- literally "hatred of sound" -- and occurs when a common noise, whether it's something like a person chewing loudly, water dripping or someone "ahem"-ing, causes you to become anxious or angry, more so than a typical response, TODAY reported.
Misophonia: When Annoying Noises Send You Into A Rage
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The burning cellulose drips and leaves a hard ash.
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Bryce paused in his tooth brushing, bubbles of minty liquid foam dripping messily down his chin.
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Conclusion (1) Fill a doctor's prescription reasonably, clyster drip can descend effectively hypernatremia.
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Check your work carefully, inspecting for missed spots, spills, drips, and other problems.
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Keep a clean cloth handy to wipe off any drips or overspray that may get onto the tracks.
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I even had to clean behind the dreaded tank-and if you were a spider with big drippy fangs and fuzzy legs, where do you think you would hide?
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Colin woke up to the drip of water falling at the end of his bed.
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The sunlight dripped through the leaves.
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You will have an intravenous drip to maintain your bodily fluids until you are able to eat and drink.
