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Sentence Examples Last Thursday, a steady trickle of supporters flowed into the stadium shop to buy tickets for today's game against Rangers at Pittodrie. 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. I'm just hoping that performance and cost benefits will trickle down to the consumer more readily. In many cases, there is little trickle down benefit to the wider population in these countries. In other words, if the rich do well, the benefits will trickle down to the rest. As we've learned in the last twenty years, wealth may not trickle down very often. There is no such thing in this country or this world as trickle down wealth. The trickle down benefits for Scotland's professional and financial services infrastructure has been huge. A shout captured everyone's attention, and they scurried down from the rocks to the trickle of water. The engine whined but didn't turn over, and she felt blood trickle from her lip as she bit back a screaming tantrum. The emotions and spirits metaphorically trickle down from the non-physical to the physical cells via the transportation of light. Put half a teaspoon of mozzarella and tomato on top with a small trickle of pesto. A trickle of blood came down the slant side of the podium and dripped off the side. Traditionally the internet slows down to a trickle, since everybody who is not on the street is likely to be online. The basins were fed by snowmelt from far above, though the influx was a mere trickle compared to the boisterous torrents of spring. A thousand questions are washed away in a trickle of tears and soon they have a new baby boy. The steady trickle of female, retro styled soul vocalists is threatening to become something of a deluge these days. The trickle of arrows became a hail of missiles, then, hurled with deadly accuracy. She suddenly let all the tears in her eyes trickle out, and she embraced him closely. I spent the next half-hour washing myself with a hard nugget of soap and a trickle of cold water. Show More Sentences Manufacturing has slowed to a trickle, hamstrung by shortages of fuel and imported components. Raindrops trickle down his face with the affectionate tranquility of milk on an oilcloth. The maidservant watched as a slow trickle of a thick sticky black substance began to run down the carved panels. The wife's questioning is swift and incisive, causing her husband first to reveal a trickle of information, then a cascade. A trickle of green blood oozed from the malachite-green hide, but it was little more than a pinprick. At one point we accidentally overturned a sledge and a trickle of brown liquid oozed out of the sledge onto the white snow. At most ports, which act as landlords to private sector operators, the cost will trickle down to private companies. The past decade has seen an outpouring of publicity, and more than a trickle of research, about chronic fatigue syndrome. Eaten with chapati and a trickle of the spicy yoghurt dip, it was a memorable concoction. Interconnected streets allow rush-hour overflow to trickle through neighborhoods, moving more traffic with less pavement. 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. The patient complained of a three year history of difficulty passing urine, being able to produce only a thin trickle of urine with straining. Dinah took the ice cream cone Noah handed to her, catching a trickle of melting vanilla with her tongue. A thin trickle of water drips down the dank side of a cliff face to splash into the stream below. A trickle of subterranean water, which fell on the plateau weeks before, collects in a culvert for the villagers. Then the river flow shrank to a trickle, forcing both families of hippos to share the same watering hole. They sing a cappella, circling the pews as congregants trickle in and join the singing. But with most big pledges made, further donations were expected to slow to a trickle. I feel a tear trickle softly down my cheek, and my throat contracts to half its normal size. He sent a faint trickle of his power into the stone, and sighed with pleasure as the coruscating fire inside the ruby increased. Show More Sentences He placed the tip in the dead centre of his palm and pulled down, creating a tiny trickle of his own blood. The clouds will just impede your direct view and the light of corona, chromosphere, and prominences may trickle through. A trickle of punters browsed the market in Parliament Street and department stores were eerily quiet. We would never know exactly what had happened, but little pieces of information would trickle through the grapevine. As the cracks widen, sand, grit, and small rocks from the overlying rubble trickle down into the fractures. It began with a trickle of English elopers sneaking across the Border to get married at Gretna. They were expecting an overwhelming display of force, and we gave them a slow trickle of guided missles. It's just a good economic model, and it actually distributed wealth and shared in productivity better than the trickle down theory. Half-hearted efforts at compliance among urban school districts have kept the exodus to just a trickle. And then, as a trickle of dank brown liquid dribbled out onto the floor I worked it out. Use a cloth to catch drips and when the first trickle of water appears, close the valve. Her head was turned to the side and I could see a trickle of drool shining from the corner of her mouth. From the drunk tank cops noticed the trickle of blood at the end of his stump that Harriman had ignored for years. You can still buy factory loaded.38 Special wadcutters from the major makers, but it's a tiny trickle compared to ten years ago. Water heaters, washers, and dryers tend to crack over time, allowing water to trickle. After sunshine and wind had baked the surface, several players watched their putts approach the cup but trickle far past the hole. Americans are still expecting to see the fruits of George W Bush's promised tax cuts trickle down over the next few years. Crops were withering, cattle were dying, and the river that once sculpted canyons was a trickle. Jack and Jason slowed their pace as the trickle of people began bunching up. It had been a month since we started the game and the results were only starting to trickle in. Show More Sentences After it had flowed to a soft trickle, they sat her up and Taski set to work rewrapping the wounds. This is the moment in the funeral video that turns the slow, rheumy trickle from Gordon's eyes into flat-out crying. Place the birds in a roasting tin, open out their legs and trickle over the melted butter through a sieve. The only movement coming from his body was a slow trickle of blood from his left temple and the rapid rise and fall of his lungs. The fronds were stiffened by ice and arched over the trickle like a tunnel of swords at a wedding. A trickle of blood ran from his nose and he dabbed at it with a handkerchief. But in the eighteenth century, despite loud protests from the privileged urban guilds, the trickle became a flood. When news of the gruesome homicide began to trickle out, the Washington Post newsroom was astir. He lit the cigarette and took in a deep lungful of smoke, letting it trickle from his nostrils. Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses. Gradually the spray tapered off to a trickle of hot water, then finally a stream of drips. Now that protection from future legal actions is in place, the 1.8 billion marks still missing from German business will probably trickle in. Warming surface temperatures in Greenland are allowing more meltwater to trickle down to the glacier bed. His answer spilled timid and trembling from his frightened lips, a trickle of stuttering feebleness. Tip-offs about possible bribes do trickle in from whistleblowers, overseas embassies and investigative journalists. Press the rhubarb lightly to drain off its juices, allowing them to trickle into the egg-sugar-butter-flour mixture. At the end, it was estimated that there were fewer than two dozen radio towers in operation and calls had slowed to a trickle. The meticulous tracings preserve every splatter, trickle and drip of the original stains. The river was mostly a trickle and the going fairly tough, with much scrambling over large rocks, but the ships of the desert took it well. Through a hole pierced in the centre of the sheet, water would trickle into the vessel kept beneath it. Show More Sentences 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. Fold the pancake neatly into a triangle, place on a plate, trickle the sauce around the pancake and serve immediately. The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges. 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. This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground. As the minutes started to slowly trickle by, Bastian sat in silence and began to wait. With all of the food eaten, and the time growing late, people began to slowly trickle out of the dining hall, until only a few people were left. Two guards took their positions on either side of the door and opened it as the kingdom's residents began to trickle in slowly. But it wasn't enough control to stop the trickle of cream-laden coffee from splashing down the front of my shirt. I stand at the counter while the barista lowers the handle on the powerful espresso machine, watching the thin trickle of aromatic liquid. A small trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth down his chin. In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle. His eyes were glazed with pain, and a thin trickle of blood flowed out of his mouth and down his chin. But even in the best of times, the emerging markets end up bidding for no more than a trickle of global capital flows. Otherwise, immigration from Bulgaria during these years had dwindled to a trickle. This small trickle of people slowly grew and at the moment there are 11 local women taking part and their numbers continue to grow. Bit by bit, the trickle of fear was becoming stronger and stronger in Maya's heart. 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. Fresh new buying migrates in slowly, a trickle at first that may grow into a deluge many years later. For years, all was quiet as the Western frontier was slowly settled by a trickle of pioneers. Show More Sentences In the past two years, the supply of clergy coming out of Canadian seminaries has dwindled to a trickle. Months after the president stepped in to save the Yazidis from genocide, the airstrikes have slowed to a trickle. 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. A small trickle of donations from friends and family, handled by a church in Indiana, was his main source of funding. 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. The trickle of blood flowed from his nose ever so much more slowly. 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. I gasped loudly as I felt the warm trickle of blood flowing from my back. The increasing number of direct flights from Dublin to Italy alongside the saturation of other Mediterranean resorts could see this effect trickle across the Irish Sea. 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. But publicly, once they make that decision, the trickle down effect is immeasurable. I went out to the garden to check the low faucet, hoping to find a trickle of water and instead, I found some paper crushed under the garden gate. A small trickle of blood wound its way along his palm, emanating from a fine slice in his skin that was deep enough to have been caused by a razor. A trickle of visitors soon turned to a flood and the Silesian peasant was, by the beginning of the 1840s, personally ministering to hundreds of valetudinarians a year. 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. 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. It is spitting with rain as the fans trickle into Headingley. She imagined it encompassing her entire body, and as she did, she felt a familiar trickle of power slowly begin to manifest itself across the surface of her skin. A straight-faced clown in severe white makeup begins picking out a tune on an accordion as more people trickle in to watch. By the time Sotloff arrived in town, the flow of journalists in and out of Aleppo had diminished to less than a trickle. Show More Sentences If your position is correct, water will trickle out your left nostril. Think of low voltage, such as that from a battery, as a trickle of water and high voltage, such as the power in a building, as a blast from a fire hose. Flora winced in pain as she watched blood trickle down from the wound. Kevin Keegan's low drive from just outside the area crashed against the base of the post and rebounded off the unfortunate Conor Larkin to trickle into the empty net. From somewhere she could hear the trickle of a stream and the sound of birds, the air smelled clean and fresh and it seemed a a thousand birds were twittering in the trees. Even so, a steady trickle of boxes flowed through the living and dining rooms, and their contents were emptied and loaded into the new storage and display units. 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. In the meantime, much of the book is already available online, and scholarly criticism has already started to trickle in. Overnight, the torrent of East German refugees drops to a trickle. She stared over at him, watched sweat begin to trickle down the side of his clearly chiseled features, slipping across his light brown, tan-colored skin. When he talks, his words trickle out and things become less muddied. Once the heat of the day has passed and the sun starts to set, a steady trickle of excitable youngsters drag their parents and grandparents to the banks of the river. And, yes, there's no question the awards ceremony will trickle a little money down into the economy and advance the cause of local music, even if briefly and insignificantly. Lunch break ends and the men slowly trickle back into the room. There against the purple horizon above the flat-topped dome rises the gray trickle of steam, barely visible, a thin ribbon unraveling into the night. There was a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. A warm trickle began to flow down his leg, either blood or urine. Below in the narrow valley, a gray stream simmered, no more than a trickle of mopwater in summer. In the aftermath of the Second World War, immigration from Ireland slowed to a trickle. After I washed up in the thin trickle of warmish water from the shower, I called Red for supper. Show More Sentences The river begins as a trickle of water from a cleft in the rock. The negative pressure in the dust collector holds the duck-bill sleeve of the trickle valve closed, creating a tight airlock seal. The flow of cross-border information too has slowed to a trickle. This is further helped by the top feed where water is introduced to the highest part of the boiler and made to trickle over a series of trays. Many sedentary peoples, whose ancestors had been expelled centuries earlier, began to trickle back into Mauritania. Although usually little more than a trickle in summer, in spate conditions it is impressive. The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night. Rumors are that there's a spring down there, and a trickle of warmish water could very well be the key to why trout gather here. The resident British black population, primarily male, was no longer growing from the trickle of slaves and servants from the West Indies and America. The CEO's benefits are unlikely to trickle down to the factory workers. The new lab consists of three continuous, trickle bed reactors and has the design capability to handle hydrotreatment and hydrogenation reactions at pressures up to 2000 psig. At best you may sense a refreshing ridgetop breeze or the skitter of a side-blotched lizard or the trickle of a subterranean stream breaking the surface. For an hour after the jam begins, musicians trickle in, unfolding chairs and sitting down with some bygone-era instruments like the mountain dulcimer. Examples from Classical Literature The water started as a trickle, a ladleful of water gently poured over my chin, my lips. If this is a trickle then Noah's flood couldn't have been more than a splash. There was always a trickle of information into headquarters by subterranean ways. Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood. The lawyer healed his own lip by allowing a little of the cratur, as he termed it, to trickle over into his mouth. Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle. His face was a sebaceous trickle of long features, and on his hands there was a murky deposit that looked like scales. The drops that trickle within the cavern harden, yet brighten into spars as they indurate. September rolled in, the streets emptied of school-aged children and the out-of-state car licenses diminished to a trickle. He lay in the street, a trickle of blood oozing from the corner of his lipless mouth, hate radiating from him in palpable waves. Then I saw a bead of sweat trickle down his forehead, and I knew that he was beaten. There followed another long pause, during which I perceived a drop or two trickle from Catherine's cheek to the flags. The huge still continued to trickle forth its alcoholic sweat. He found pleasure in feeling the water trickle over his burning brow and over his body, agitated by feverish shudders. There was a trickle of water down the quarsteel he was leaning against! It was hastily thrust in by a hillman, and a trickle of thick smoke from each corner of the curtains showed that peace was restored. It was only then that her still face showed the least emotion, a tear or two beginning to trickle down. Here and there a ball still sticks in a wall, and from it iron tears trickle down and discolor the stone. He gave a little gasp, and the tears began to trickle down his round cheeks. If the people at the top of the pile fill their glasses, they will let their wealth trickle down to those at the bottom. Show More Sentences They make a powerful policy argument against trickle down and rich tax cuts, and for people programs and targeted tax cuts for workers. The sweat was beginning to trickle in the hair of the fat cattle. All this came out of her like an unctuous trickle of some acrid oil. I've heard recently that trickle down economics doesn't work. King Trudo at one time reduced the trade from the Slave Coast to a trickle by blocking the paths leading to the sources of the supply of slaves in the interior. Then all shouted with laughter as they saw the good brown ale stream over Little John's beard and trickle from his nose and chin, while his eyes blinked with the smart of it. Air bubbles trickled slowly upward, showing that the breath had been expelled from their lungs, and after that the bubbles ceased to trickle upward. Even a modest trickle of water through a rock garden can be exciting. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of trickle? Words that rhyme with trickle What is the past tense of trickle? What is the plural of trickle? What is the adverb for trickle? What is the adjective for trickle? What is the noun for trickle? Translations for trickle Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words tricking trickiness trickily trickiest trickier trickery trickled trickle-down trickle down economics trickle-down effect trickles trickling 7-letter Words Starting With t tr tri tric trick trickl