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
He had thrust the wet moccasins down the neck of his shirt, and icy trickles ran down chest and belly, soaking his breechclout. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
His cheeks were colorless and the sweat trickled from his brow.
The hoaxer, it seemed, had exploited the trickle-up nature of online information flow. February 6th, 2009
When news of the gruesome homicide began to trickle out, the Washington Post newsroom was astir.
He strode on along the right-hand fork; the sweat stood in beads on his neck and trickled about his ankles.
The wife's questioning is swift and incisive, causing her husband first to reveal a trickle of information, then a cascade.
He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth.
He broke out in a cold sweat, feeling the trickles of perspiration run down his clammy face.
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.
Many have proposed the idea to decrease taxes on the rich and allow a system called the trickle-down effect to happen, where money and taxes will be dispersed across an entire economic system. Sam Turer: Increasing the Debt Ceiling Won't Fix the Economy
Visually you can picture this as some kind of burbling pot where the foam that rises brings the violent ones to the surface and the more moderate ones remain at the bottom of the pot and receive whatever misfortunes trickle down from the bomb throwing ones who flourish at the top of the pot. When Is a Shoah not a Shoah?
Only down the side of this trickled moisture which had stained the stone with encrusta - tions and given life to some strange and ominous-looking growths pallidly yellow and dankly gray in the globe light. Flight in Yiktor
I felt the hot trickle of blood run down my leg, felt particles of cement abrading my hands. Haven
I gratefully grab a cup from a girl in a yellow bib, take a couple of sips and pour the cold water over my head, feeling it douse my hair, run down my face and trickle onto my chest.
What were the main theories of infancy which psychoanalysts had developed, based on their clinical sensitivity and intuition, by the time the trickle of infant research became a flood in the 70s?
It was one of those units where the water trickles over an electric coil to heat it up.
A thin rivulet of blood trickled from a gash in her lip. The Wall « A Fly in Amber
In subsequent years the trickle of repayments will become a flood. Times, Sunday Times
Over the last 10 years he has produced a steady flow/stream/trickle of articles and papers.
As we trickle day by day through the end of October and move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties.
And I really went week after week, month after month, before the details of what was going on in that family slowly began to trickle out.
Blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth.
Silence, then the trickle at once became a small flood of words. THE LAST RAVEN
There was also scepticism at the preelection giveaways that started to trickle out at party conference time. Times, Sunday Times
Gary Locke estimated losses totaling billions of dollars, as damage reports of highways, homes and businesses continued to trickle in.
He didn't mind, so long as the piss was absorbed by the fleecy innards of his pants and didn't trickle down his leg, which was infinitely more foul. Graeme King and the Creature
In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle.
Tiny rivers of blood trickled aimlessly down his hand.
And county consumer protection officer David Holliday says despite extensive publicity only a trickle of people have been using them.
In subsequent years the trickle of repayments will become a flood. Times, Sunday Times
In another, tidy rows of young vegetables are being trickle-hosed into plumpness.
Move onion to side, letting oil trickle back, increase heat and brown meat. Times, Sunday Times
The fronds were stiffened by ice and arched over the trickle like a tunnel of swords at a wedding.
Rain trickled incessantly down each man's face and glistened in dusty beads upon foreheads, clothing at last gave way to complete saturation, and water, collecting in pools until over ankle deep, oozed slushily in and out of the eyelet holes. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
The city's worth a visit for that alone - three scoops of high-roast ground Cuban coffee to a trickle of scalding water, served in sugary shot measures that simply electrify the system.
Some drip, some trickle or dribble whereas some sound like a natural brook. Times, Sunday Times
With the land rush fading into history, the Ten Thousand Acres had proven a useful way of opening up a steady trickle of cubage. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
A trickle of subterranean water, which fell on the plateau weeks before, collects in a culvert for the villagers.
Yet the trickle of people departing has become an unstoppable flood. Times, Sunday Times
It needs to be thin enough to trickle easily over the tomatoes. Times, Sunday Times
Blood trickled slowly down his cheek.
Then the river flow shrank to a trickle, forcing both families of hippos to share the same watering hole.
She felt the cold water trickle down her throat.
As it turns out, the exact opposite of the ‘trickle down effect’ is what happens in the real world!
Politics Video: Obama praises Clinton's mother Dorothy Rodham Politics Video: Obama Talks Oil and Gas With Texas Station KTRK Report Abuse Don't pee on my head and call it "trickle-down" economics. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses.
Many cutting tools were sharpened with strickles or whetstones.
Without a smart central controller, control can trickle up from the bottom.
In Washington, he said, they call trickle-down economics the Ownership Society, but what it really means is you’re on your own. THE PROMISE
The knock-on effect of increased fuel prices may eventually trickle down to everything from the price of milk and a loaf of bread to the clothes we wear.
Through marshy headlands rivers and fertile streams trickled, and the wind-swift archer's horses of the loyalist soldiers of Adiabene drank their fill.
Thin trickles of water slowly ran down the sheet of glass.
As the ice melts, the trickle down their body will send temperatures soaring. The Sun
Why couldn't the crow throw the stone a little harder, break the pot or jar - breakables all - and drink the water that trickled out?
Her eyebrow had received the blow from the torch and had begun to throb; she could feel a trickle of blood.
Under the open-source model, scientists are free to modify the control software, creating a trickle-down effect that benefits amateurs.
Here trickle nozzles zigzag through the compost to distribute water evenly and prevent waterlogging. The Sun
The steady trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth was dripping from his chin on to his coat front.
If you'd rather receive your mail in large batches than have it trickle through, request a digest where available.
Water trickled from the pools around the artists 'residence, carp splashed and occasionally a kingfisher swooped above the pool. A message from Lian Hearn the writing of Across the Nightingale Floor
strickle the grain in the measure
Since news from the war seems to have dwindled to a trickle, it is an interesting way of keeping track of our troops - and a very personal one too.
A single teardrop trickled down my cheek.
Gradually people trickled back into the theatre for the second half.
Tackle tips: A steady trickle of bait running into a swim will attract and keep fish feeding in one place.
He began to sweat, a weird cold extrusion of moisture that began to trickle down his face.
The first few fans started to trickle into the stadium.
This concern cannot be a matter of a mere trickle down by which the weak live on the leavings of the powerful, but must be aimed directly at enabling the weak to share in the goods of life.
It is spitting with rain as the fans trickle into Headingley.
The sides of the strickle are smeared with grease upon which fine gritty sand is sprinkled freely; nothing gives a better edge to a scythe than this.
Salty perspiration trickled down his forehead and burned his eyes as he looked up at the flyspecked calendar. Historical Novel about...Pembina
I stand at the counter while the barista lowers the handle on the powerful espresso machine, watching the thin trickle of aromatic liquid.
A trickle of green blood oozed from the malachite-green hide, but it was little more than a pinprick.
At Julesburg, near the Nebraska border, the Platte was a bare trickle, exactly the way Potato Brumbaugh had planned, but as the river crossed the state line, waters escaping from the irrigation ditches returned, so that in the end Nebraska received its lawful share. Centennial
The titanium container smashed into the ground, and a small rivulet of fuchsia trickled out.
The number of visitors arriving has slowed to a trickle from the mobs of summer. Times, Sunday Times
With rental income dwindling to a mere trickle on many estates in 1880-81, signs of alarm in the Big House were not hard to find.
I can feel trickles of sweat running down my neck.
The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges.
The stream has dwindled to a trickle.
At 8.30am people trickle off. Times, Sunday Times
Remember that in the average Australian's vocabulary, ‘taking a leak’ means producing a trickle of lukewarm wee.
Undo the coupling slightly so water can trickle into the container, and open the air vent to increase the flow rate.
Move onion to side, letting oil trickle back, increase heat and brown meat. Times, Sunday Times
Howard is well awake to those instincts and worked the media carefully to make a trickle of boatpeople look like the Mongol hordes were coming for us.
Several small trickles of blood flow down the side of his neck.
�trickle-down economics� founded on the fundamental principle that if you tax the richest people in a nation even less then they will actually volunteer to pay income tax, spend more of their wealth in the country and, eventually, some of that money will trickle-down to the lower levels in society and, somehow, the money spent will improve the standard of living of the poorest. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
Later, top-feed was introduced, shown by two pipes from the injectors circling the boiler to ‘clack valves’ whence the feed water was able to trickle down a series of trays, mixing with the steam and avoiding much scaling of the metal.
Jack and Jason slowed their pace as the trickle of people began bunching up.
Well, I still have a cough, though it's much diminished, yielding ground day by day to a steady trickle of hot rum toddies served steaming at appropriate times.
But today's most exciting trends tend to erupt, rather than trickle down; they come and go with dizzying alacrity.
His laughter, she thought, was worth it every time - that slow cool trickle that felt like the ocean sluicing over your toes.
Her stockings are ruined and a rivulet of blood trickles from one of her knees.
They continued to trickle in under the coppery sun.
Set in the Catskill Mountains, the canvas's foreground depicts a logged-over declivity through which runs a thin trickle of water that carries the viewer's eye toward a farmhouse barely visible in the shadows.
He returned; from the water he uprose; he stood upon the brink; the streamlets trickled down his side. The Times Literary Supplement
Each cell receives a slow trickle of swamp cooled air which does little to alleviate our suffering in the summer months when we feel like we are being baked alive.
People were entering in a steady trickle, some of them touching the high stone threshold with their right hands, and raising their hands to their heads.
Traditionally the internet slows down to a trickle, since everybody who is not on the street is likely to be online.
A driblet of water emerged from the spring to flow along a winding channel and finally trickle down into the chasm. A Spell For Chameleon
Sweat trickles down the face of a man busking in a steamy town square.
This prejudice trickles all the way down to the bottom feeders, like the two plump southerners selling the kind of gunsights that project red dots onto chests or foreheads of intended victims.
The arrivals terminal has its own rhythm: the early desultory pulses of the automatic door, then the great disgorge, and finally, as the crowd wilts away, the trickle of presumably more complicated arrivals.
In 1885 Alfred Lawson purchased the Redenhall foundry but apparently he did not use any of its strickles or stamps.
Crops were withering, cattle were dying, and the river that once sculpted canyons was a trickle.
Hereupon the voyagers fell to beweeping the loss of their lives and their goods, and the Sultan Habib shed tears which trickled adown his cheeks and exclaimed, "Would Heaven I had died before seeing such torment: indeed this is naught save a matter of marvel. Arabian nights. English
Her interest in die conversation picked up considerably when Kenji told her about his "new data," the files from Nicole * s personal computer that had been telemetered down to Earth in the "trickle mode" during the final few weeks of the mission. The Garden of Rama
Against a rustic stucco wall, water trickles out of scalloped bowls into a colorful blue fountain bedecked with blazing bougainvillea.
Waiters in white coats serve you rum punch: trade winds trickle through the trees; and the scent of jasmine fills the air.
A thin trickle of blood ran down from a cut above her eye.
Regular Retort readers may already know I have no real love of the Prequel Trilogy,so when the first of these post-Revenge of the Sith animated projects began to trickle out featuring not the original Star Wars setting with Han and Leia and asskicking, but the new ones, with Anakin and trade disputes and whining I sniffed my haughtiest sniff. How the Disaffected Star Wars Fan can enjoy the Clone Wars cartoon « The Retort
In the days of Phair Caron's border raids, the refugees had been a trickle, a few fleeing the burning of villages in the northmost part of the land. Dalamar the Dark
As sea trade dwindled to a trickle, so industry imploded. HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle.
The basins were fed by snowmelt from far above, though the influx was a mere trickle compared to the boisterous torrents of spring.
She noticed, trailing from the corner of the frozen grimace of his mouth, a trickle of mealy yellow liquid that was drying into a crust on his cheek.
Trickle some oil over the salad.
Howard watched the last trickle of water drain away, and, congratulating himself on a job well done, disposed of his home made unblocker in the flip-top bin by the back door.
He lit the cigarette and took in a deep lungful of smoke, letting it trickle from his nostrils.
I felt all this warm liquid trickle down my face. The Sun
This is my family," he said, a trickle of laughter spilling from Cecilia and Leonardo as I looked at the group of pigs in mariachi garb on one side of the fan. Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan
The trickle from a few days ago ... is about to be a fire hose today," Maj. U.S. military boosts aid to quake-ravaged Haiti
This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground.
If your position is correct, water will trickle out your left nostril.
The government is not simply relying on trickle-down economics to tackle poverty.
Peltonen made it 3-1 at 7: 48 of the second with a backhander from the side of the net that trickled through Gerber's legs. USATODAY.com
At the end, it was estimated that there were fewer than two dozen radio towers in operation and calls had slowed to a trickle.
But as the first help trickled in on Sunday, it was the plight of the living that seemed the most desperate.
Recent legislation has reduced immigration to a trickle.
Low-end machines are now benefiting from the trickle-down technology.
Within minutes a trickle of fans into the ground had turned into an endless stream. The Sun
He has a regular housekeeper, whose family thus benefits from the trickle-down effect.
The flood was dammed, the trickle diminished to a drop here and there as though someone had put a bend in the hose-pipe - which, I suppose, in computer terms, they had.
Eaten with chapati and a trickle of the spicy yoghurt dip, it was a memorable concoction.
It was a trickle rather than a deluge. The Sun
Great beads of perspiration trickled down his forehead.
In the trickle-down theory of the economy of our oceans, the species which live highest have the best chance of biological productivity.
Her eyes widened as Jesse stood there, small trickles of blood dripping from his clenched hands.
STRICKLER: There was five police reports priorly written on these two in Miami. CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2008
We went from trickle-down economics to what I call invest and growth -- reduce the deficit, but invest more in our people and technology and in the progress of people in the future, and open the world to trade in American products and services. Remarks By President To Us Conference Of Mayors
The stream had thinned down to a mere trickle.
Clinging the plane with his left hand, pain trickled down his arm and he almost let go. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Aha! I think I’ve invented a superpower.
It blinded Willie and trickled down inside the collar of his mackintosh.
Fold the pancake neatly into a triangle, place on a plate, trickle the sauce around the pancake and serve immediately.
Therefore, the installation when scraping knife , you want to make sure that the strickle blade pressure.
It is certainly possible to put some powder in a clean bowl and use a small spoon to trickle powder into the scale pan until the proper charge is reached.
By February, 900 miners had abandoned the strike; at the pit gates, handfuls of pickets made desultory shouts of ‘scab’ as the trickle of working miners became a flood.
After fiddling with the tiny shower-head Polly managed to get a spray rather than a trickle of lukewarm water.
The government is not simply relying on trickle-down economics to tackle poverty.
Also the tax payer is already paying for the uninsured in bankruptcies, unpaid medical services which trickles down to one form or another. White House launches counteroffensive over Drudge Report link
Recent legislation has reduced immigration to a trickle.
The trickle of blood flowed from his nose ever so much more slowly.
He went on to suggest future inventions for boffins to work on: the slamless door, the suckless soup spoon and the trickleless tap.
They almost added another a minute later when a pull by Jarlath Sweeney trickled inches wide of the upright.
A trickle of drool oozed down his unshaven chin.
They are worried that the flow/trickle/stream of tourists could swell into an unmanageable torrent if there are no controls.
This new vogue in imagery has yet to trickle down, but it will. Times, Sunday Times
This scenario asks us to believe in trickle-down economics theory on a global scale, even though so far it has not worked in any single country.
The airport ran until the 1980s - the traffic slowly coming down to a trickle.
A thin trickle of blood ran down from a cut above her eye.
He clicked on the morphine dispenser but this time he didn't feel the trickle of Lethe, as they'd begun to call it. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
They are worried that the flow/trickle/stream of tourists could swell into an unmanageable torrent if there are no controls.
There seems to have been at most a thin trickle of men directly from northern France into Scotland, and there is little evidence of migration directly from the Continent to Ireland.
A thin trickle of blood from the rapidly swelling bruise blurred to pale pink, diluted by the pounding rain.
He put on his basketball uniform and began to loosen his muscles while his teammates slowly trickled in and follow suit.
Do trickledown economics work or is it simply a self-serving justification for grotesque inequality? Times, Sunday Times
Cool to lukewarm and then trickle the egg and water over the stuffing, mixing it in lightly until the stuffing is moist yet still rather crumbly.
Or has the descriptivism trickled all the way down? The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law
If you look closer, you'll see that a myriad of small streams or spruits, trickle through the suburbs, particularly the northern suburbs.
Within minutes a trickle of fans into the ground had turned into an endless stream. The Sun
His eyes were glazed with pain, and a thin trickle of blood flowed out of his mouth and down his chin.
By taking his stand upon the Bible and preaching thence, the preacher utters the prayer, and expresses the faith, that the thin, shallow trickle of his own words will be taken up into the living Word of him, concerning whom it was said that his voice was "as the sound of many waters. Archive 2006-10-01
This corruption, he said, "has a trickle-down effect to every single religious community in the world. Further Observations from a Rabbi
Nevertheless, the water collects in small, coalescing passageways and eventually trickles out of each glacier.
A small trickle of blood ran from his bottom lip. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
As the sun rose, Sweetheart and her sailor glided through a gap in the sand reef that closed the lagoon in, luffed, and as a great cloud of nesting pelicans rose from their dirty town on the flats, ran softly upon the inner sands, where a rillet, a mere thread of sweet water, trickled across the white beach. Strong Hearts
And so he lay there, tasting the blood that trickled out the corners of his mouth like a slow burbling spring, convinced that his back was broken. Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing
The news cameras and protestors have trickled away. Christianity Today
he felt the blood move stickily from his split scalp and trickle down his forehead
The emotions and spirits metaphorically trickle down from the non-physical to the physical cells via the transportation of light.
Season with salt and pepper, then trickle over the tahini dressing. Times, Sunday Times
Gauteng has a single artesian spring - on Alberts Farm in Albertskroon in Joburg's northwest suburbs - spurting a fresh, clean trickle of water throughout the year.
Gradually trickle in the olive oil while still blending - this will give a gloss and richness to the soup and balance the acidity. Times, Sunday Times
What scared me witless recently, not to be uncouth and say 'shitless', was to look at a topographical representation of the society outlined in Orwell's 1984, delineating the small proportion of 'inner party' as '2\%' - and thinking of the 'trickle down' theory of economics deployed as rationale for tax cuts in the CounterPunch
Also the tax payer is already paying for the uninsured in bankruptcies, unpaid medical services which trickles down to one form or another. White House launches counteroffensive over Drudge Report link
The calming sound of water tickled the ear while it trickled from a metal candy-cane-shaped faucet into the marble bathtub to form a deep celadon green sea that would ease even the most extreme case of midterm anxiety.
Black cherry stained liquid trickled out from the folds of canvas.
Therefore, the installation when scraping knife , you want to make sure that the strickle blade pressure.
Use it trickled over ice-cream sundaes, on pancakes, or with the banana fool above.
A solitary tear trickled down her cheek and was quickly brushed aside.

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