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trickle

— verb (= dribble) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose reports began to dribble in — noun (= drip) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid there's a drip through the roof

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drip ooze drop dribble flow exude leak seep distill ooze out glide filter fall in drops drizzle distil sweat stream spill run out pour out pour leak out flux dripping drain well out waste trill thread thin tap stream forth sprinkle spot with rain splash spillage seep through seep out see runoff run raindrop propagate outflow make wet leakage leak away instill gutter gush

Topics trickle topics

What do people use trickle to talk about?
States Quantity Plural

Few, little
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow

Conjugation trickle conjugation

How do you conjugate trickle?

trickle · verb

Examples trickle examples

How do I use trickle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I felt the sweat trickle down my brow.
A trickle of blood ran down his neck.

Movie subtitles

I love the trickle of ice cold water pouring down my neck.
A thin trickle at first then more and more.
There's no more than a trickle of water in the creek, laddie.
There's trickle and there's sprinkle.
Soon this trickle of blood, these few bones, this net woven of nerves and arteries will be dust.
Trickle back to your truckle beds.
Perfumes, materials from Baghdad, ivory, gold, spices - all these, Prince Saphadin, are now but a trickle because of this war.
But only a trickle went to Stalingrad - just enough to keep it from coggapsing.
Now the water holes have dried up to only a trickle and soon that will be hard-baked soil.
I need a glass to contain my blood, or it will trickle away.
Aw, it's slowed down to a trickle.
It's more like a trickle.
Things are pretty thin since the creek turned into a trickle. What is the problem?
Let it trickle away.
Well, it began this morning when reports began to trickle through that he'd given Bowens his television and Carruthers his hi-fi.
Hey, we got a trickle here.
Now pour it here. It's going to trickle out down there.
Ah, it's slowed down to a trickle.
Things are pretty thin since the creek turned into a trickle.
Now they're starting to trickle into the States. and I think the guy who bled to death all over your rug brought in a shipment.
Well, if you can't eliminate the flow, the least you can do is cut it down to a trickle.
A trickle.
Now, darling must do his little trickle in eight seconds.
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It's barely a trickle.
Drug supplies have been cut to a trickle.
Trickle down between the bricks and concrete.
So we cut their water supply down to a trickle.
Get whatever it is you've stolen. and we'll trickle down together and just see those detectives. - You're out of your mind.
And then just about 10 minutes ago. it finally began to trickle into this thickskull of mine. that I'm not the only character around town with a celebrated wife.
You should've seen how he cried, and since he only had one eye it was more of a trickle than tears.
It's decent of you to trickle along, but don't come in.
The Earth's low gravity has allowed most of our hydrogen gas to trickle away to space.
You are melting. Trickle down between the bricks and concrete.
I mean something, anything, should trickle down over here, no?
Not for me, but trickle-down.
I want to ask him about trickle-down economics.
So, did you meet Dick Trickle?
His name is Dick Trickle.
And now, I'm a housewife. and she goes on cruises with Dick Trickle.

News and current affairs

NAFTA was conceived under the assumption that expanded trade would trickle down benefits to all in the three countries.
First, it relied - once again - on trickle-down economics: somehow, throwing enough money at Wall Street would trickle down to Main Street, helping ordinary workers and homeowners.
Trickle-down economics almost never works, and it is no more likely to work this time.
This improvement did not trickle down to ordinary citizens, and there was no effective media and communication strategy to capitalize on it.
Second, whatever growth there is in France does not trickle down to the poor.
Trickle-down economics almost never works.
But recognize the argument favoring openness for what it is: trickle-down institutional reform.
Reforms may or may not trickle down; even when they do, they will rarely constitute the most effective way of targeting the desired ends (whether those ends are legal reform, observance of human rights, or reduced corruption).
Overall economic growth is important, but the poor should not have to wait until its benefits trickle down to them; with the right anti-poverty policies, governments can encourage trickle-up growth as well.
Japan, Germany, and Russia all saw large outflows of their populations before the First World War, but these flows slowed to a trickle as countries like the US closed their doors to immigrants in the wake of the Great Depression that began in 1929.
Trade and exchange continued only at a trickle.
It might not be so bad if there were even a grain of truth to trickle-down economics - the quaint notion that everyone benefits from enriching those at the top.
And government responsiveness at lower levels, one may hope, might eventually trickle up to the top.
Nor is there any reason to believe that the benefits at the top will trickle down.
Only a handful of countries have developed nuclear weapons outside of the NPT, and the CTBT has reduced the number of nuclear tests from an average of 500 per decade to a mere trickle.
Indeed, the rising aspirations of Arab youth in Egypt and Tunisia, the wellspring of the Arab Spring, followed impressive economic growth that had failed to trickle down.
The benefits of tax-cut-fueled growth would trickle down to all - policies that have become fashionable in Europe and elsewhere, but that have failed.
Economists argue that should the current trickle of 350,000 visitors each year grow to a quite reasonable million, every Bolivian would be employed.
Trickle-down economics does not work: an increase in GDP can actually leave most citizens worse off.

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