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US
/ˈtɹɪkəɫ/
]
[ UK /tɹˈɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈɪkəl/ ]
NOUN
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flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
there's a drip through the roof
VERB
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run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
reports began to dribble in
water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose
How To Use trickle In A Sentence
- To be fair to the tourists they appear to be avoiding that trap as the days trickle by before the Kandy Test.
- I didn't answer her, just kept scrubbing the toilet clean while Colleen trickled Visine into her eyes.
- We get a steady trickle of critical letters whose general gist is'Why did you write that, when you could have written this? Times, Sunday Times
- At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
- His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side.
- Interconnected streets allow rush-hour overflow to trickle through neighborhoods, moving more traffic with less pavement.
- Tea at a tiny inn sunk in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks -- tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory. Anthony Lyveden
- A tear trickled down the old man's cheek.
- One day the boy we had looking after The Trickler fell in with a mob of sharps who told him we didn't know anything about training horses, and that what the horse really wanted was "a twicer" -- that is to say, a gallop twice round the course. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
- Pain circled my head, blood trickled coppery in my mouth, and darkness called until the clock ticked into the next millisecond and my foot came down awkwardly on the dirt. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day