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as in to drip
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops
trickled a little honey into her tea
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as in to splash
to flow in a broken irregular stream
the brook trickled along the glade
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Recent Examples of trickle
Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
That wasn’t strictly true—we’d passed at least one lady sipping cocktails at the bar, and a few more eventually trickled in to be seated for dinner—but the room was, on each of my visits, overwhelmingly a room of men.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2025
Sweat soaks your chest and trickles down your spine.
—Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
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Verb
During another, his hand gets cut off and spins through outer space past one of the ship’s windows, droplets of blood trickling behind it.
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Trump’s goal is to slash Iran’s oil exports of 1.5 million barrels per day to a trickle, the Treasury secretary said.
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Othello review: Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal shine in an otherwise shaky production Before long, Henry has dripped poison in Dorian's ear — warning him of his beauty's impermanence — while Basil's unchanging snapshot of his youth has evoked a bitter envy in the impressionable young man.—
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Sap dripped from the gash into a vessel near the base of the trunk, and in the morning, Woksis’s wife used the liquid to boil meat for dinner.—
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Kids splash at the shore; many visitors fish, swim and float the ponds.—
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For example, Joel Montalbano, the space agency’s deputy associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, addressed the matter after Williams and Wilmore splashed down off the coast of Florida.—
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Queen did his damage off the dribble, and that is not how Toppin operates.—
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The Ducks guard has one superpower in particular — the ability to stop on a dime and rise for pull-up jumpers off the dribble, getting enough elevation to offset his lack of size.—
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Anytime billions flow into an industry, competition ramps up and stock valuations soar.—
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The neoclassical style was still in fashion; flowing dresses with empire waists were de rigueur.—
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An employee was seen sneezing directly into their hand and returning to work without washing their hands.—
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Because what’s really getting washed is the film as the paint rests safely beneath it.—
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Perrin’s library exhibit explores the wild side of zoo animals, the spatters and abstraction of pieces echoing Jackson Pollock, the serenity of San Diego’s coastal views and the intersection of music and physical art.—
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Just from a wardrobe point of view, nobody’s changing, other than getting blood spatters cleaned up.—
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Then, the borders closed, factories stalled, and transportation bottlenecks rippled through every tier.—
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Observing interaction between this turbulent environment and the slim filaments produced, as shocks ripple through, provides a more complete view of the cyclical processes within the CMZ.—
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My mother-in-law had an expression of open-mouthed awe; her husband, for his part, seemed to be fighting back tears.—
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The true culprit, a rambunctious zebra, tears through the screen and plunges a normal suburban home into tumult with the help of some other animals and a stash of fireworks.—
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“Trickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trickle. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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