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Example sentences for "dribble"

Lexicographically close words:
dretfully; drew; drewe; drey; dria; dribbled; dribbles; dribbling; dribe; driblet
  1. Urine may dribble from the sheath or the flow may be completely suppressed.

  2. Long strings of saliva may dribble from the mouth and collect about the lips (Fig.

  3. Mr. Dribble ended by observing, with a heavy sigh, "that times were sadly changed since those days.

  4. On our Way homewards Buckthorne assured me that this Dribble had been the prime wit and great wag of the school in their boyish days, and one of those unlucky urchins denominated bright geniuses.

  5. The artisans, too, from the dusky foundry, the engineer shop, and the factory, soon began to dribble about.

  6. Who could dribble and keep possession of the ball like Weir?

  7. Three royal fountains running beer, And one to dribble wine, O, Would make them flock from far and near, To grunt like loyal swine, O.

  8. As it ceased the guide plunged his arm into the water and slowly withdrew it, letting drops dribble from his fingers.

  9. Then he heard that splash and dribble in the water, and imagined that his impatient mate was dipping her nose into the lake for a cool drink.

  10. The urine may be retained or may dribble away.

  11. It may dribble away, but that is not enough.

  12. Not you: you let your damned poison just dribble from you.

  13. At the top of a second flight of stairs a slavey sat back on her heels and twisted a dribble of gray water from her cloth into her bucket.

  14. She starts to bleed a tiny dribble of bright red blood, but I know she'll live.

  15. He talks into his glass as he swishes around the remaining dribble of whiskey, as if he has trouble meeting my eyes for once.

  16. Oh, I've seen him take a sip or two of champagne to some one's health, or as much Scotch whiskey in a tumbler of water as you could dribble from a medium-boilered fountain pen.

  17. He can dribble well, feint, pass, shoot, and yet keep control of the ball.

  18. With no unnecessary charging, they always got on the ball, and knew when it was best to dribble and when to shoot.

  19. Also for empty Bottles, which he laboriously scoured and delivered at the Drug Store for a mere dribble of Chicken Feed.

  20. Never again would he walk on the Grass or cook his Arms or dribble Sand all over the dark and trampled Ground where countless Good Men had suffered.

  21. She looked round at them out of the corner of those lustrous, mild, cynical eyes, and from her grey lips a little dribble of saliva threaded its way towards the straw.

  22. What beautiful ringlets those were that used to dribble over them!

  23. Early next morning the column began to dribble in.

  24. Blair, dust covered and bruised, with a dribble of blood still trickling from his mashed lip, made an effort to complete his speech which ended in anticlimax.

  25. From the dribble of small leaks come the breaks that wreck dams, and Morgan was neglecting none of them.

  26. Of course we cut the deliveries down to a mere dribble some time ago, but even that dribble could bleed me to death in time.

  27. In order to dribble stuff smelling sickeningly of carnations on a wasted yard.

  28. The whole of God is mine if I am Christ's, and a dribble of God is all that comes into the lives of most of us.

  29. We may open it to let the whole full tide run in, or we may close it till a mere dribble reaches us.

  30. It seemed but yesterday she came here a smiling little lass of nine or ten, the darling of that worn-out soldier, whose life had commenced so eventfully, to dribble out its remaining sands in so quiet and obscure a retreat.

  31. There is a still hour in the morning, awhile before noon, when the idlers and the dissipated begin to dribble into or out of the city, and studies of the odd and the sad alike abound for the Hogarthian pencil and imagination.

  32. There is a slow dribble of wayfarers, who seldom spend their time in the dismal and dingy waiting-room unless in very cold weather or to stand guard over their parcels which they have piled upon the seats.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dribble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.