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Example sentences for "dribbled"

Lexicographically close words:
drew; drewe; drey; dria; dribble; dribbles; dribbling; dribe; driblet; driblets
  1. With his knife he dug up the black moist earth beneath the leaves, and dribbled it on to the heating jaws.

  2. It would break me if it dribbled to headquarters.

  3. The mouth was open, from the drooping of the lower jaw, and the saliva constantly dribbled upon the clothing.

  4. The head fell forward, the arms and limbs hung down helpless, the eyes rolled upward, and the saliva dribbled from his mouth.

  5. The water instantly dribbled towards the bed, finally settling in a particular spot.

  6. The money dribbled through their fingers like water, and fresh dupes had to be found almost daily to pay the interest due to the original investors.

  7. Naylor dribbled one to Jackwell that rolled so slowly that the batter reached first.

  8. McGuire dribbled a slow one to the box that Axander had no trouble in getting to first on time.

  9. The saliva continually dribbled from the mouth and from the inferior internal portion of his mask, compelling him to carry some substance to receive the dribblings.

  10. The right meatus was normal, and through it most of the urine passed, though some always dribbled through an opening in the perineum at a point where the root of the scrotum should have been.

  11. The urine dribbled continuously, and if the child cried or made any exertion it came in jets.

  12. The mouth of the parasite constantly dribbled saliva, but showed no indication of receiving aliment.

  13. Each penis had its own urethra, from which dribbled urine and some meconium.

  14. Gradually the enemy dribbled his men in between the posts and began threatening them on their flanks and forcing them back.

  15. Finally, after the protective barrage had stopped, the enemy dribbled round the flanks of the position, and by 5 P.

  16. A little rain dribbled down, and of a sudden Koos whistled like a korhaan.

  17. Whenever he stirred, sovereigns dribbled to the floor, but he looked not once after them; he was all for watching Walters, who barely turned towards him.

  18. It shot across to the far left a moment later, was rushed forward by the outside left, dribbled across to the inside man, and then sent flying between the Parkland posts.

  19. That brilliant little half who had nursed his forwards assiduously all through the game got the ball when all alone and dribbled it swiftly toward Parkland's goal.

  20. It ran freely from the receptacle in which this rascal had brought it, and then slowly became less in quantity, till it merely dribbled from the spout.

  21. The latter dribbled it neatly past a couple of the opponents and sent it on to Harper, on the outside left.

  22. For a second the House pack was swept off its feet, and during that second Fitzgerald had dribbled to within ten yards of the line.

  23. The grovel flocked round, and Collins, heaving Burgess off the ball with a flying kick, dribbled the ball to the half-way line.

  24. Practically all the staff deserted what Randall called the Cause and dribbled away into the army," she replied mournfully.

  25. After a while my words dribbled out with difficulty and eventually ceased.

  26. The honest rain had ceased, but wet drops dribbled from the leaves of the trees and the branches and trunks exuded moisture.

  27. Capsules of praise, every one of these; but they were from the top shelf beyond a doubt, and the fact that they had been reached for indicated that at least something of my message had dribbled over the frames.

  28. With this object, I reinforced General Birdwood with the XIIIth Division, 29th Brigade, Xth Division, and 29th Indian Brigade, all of which were secretly dribbled ashore at Anzac Cove on the three nights preceding commencement of operations.

  29. And Hutton's gang were just the new, rough men Macartney had dribbled in to the La Chance mine!

  30. I knew this cave was safe, for I lived here two months before me and the rest of us dribbled into La Chance.

  31. I sent a runner to recall them, and in an hour or so they dribbled in, though one man was killed by a chance shell on the way.

  32. There was an interval, and then real news dribbled in.

  33. Sweat stood out in great, glistening beads on his forehead and dribbled blindingly into his wide, distended eyes.

  34. Its light flickered in a sickly, yellow glow over the straight-backed chairs, across the unpapered walls, and dribbled feebly upwards to where the heavy rafters of the ceiling were obliterated in a smothering thickness of shadows.

  35. Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.

  36. His mouth, small and weak, dribbled away at the corners into the jowls which, in their turn, melted into two or three chins.

  37. My tears dribbled down onto my dress waist, though I tried to stanch 'em with my snowy linen handkerchief.

  38. And hot tears dribbled down onto my sheep's-head night-caps.

  39. But they appeared in a few minutes, Tirzah Ann with her arms full of bundles which dribbled onnoticed on the pier as she advanced and throwed her arms round her pa's and ma's neck.

  40. Suppose she had fastened a pedometer on her ankle to record the miles she had dribbled down the floor?

  41. Thump, thump, thump went the ball against the slick floor as the first passer dribbled down the side line before throwing the ball.

  42. On that day of the water-dribbled rocks of Nevada, it was the loss of Allen which had caused the mood, and the thought that the loss was final, and that the yellow fleck ore in the pit paid back no minutest percentage of the loss.

  43. The passage leading forward was wide enough to permit of our advancing together and for a few steps the light dribbled in past us, quite sufficient for guidance, although our shadows were somewhat confusing.

  44. The last of the bunch of prisoners dribbled down the ladder, each in turn noisily greeted by those already huddled below.

  45. Before Red could stop him, he dribbled down the floor, cut in under the basket and scored.

  46. Quick as a cat, he dribbled directly under the basket, and hooked an easy one through the netting.

  47. Pat dribbled the ball lazily, passing it to a player in the middle of the floor.

  48. Hold it as carefully as one might it dribbled at its spout, and added to the confused appearance of the table by staining the cloth afresh every time it was used.

  49. She dribbled at the corners of her black, moist lips; her eye was soft and cynical.

  50. The little click as the cane-shafts met was heard all over the ground, and then Hughes made some sort of quick wrist-stroke that just dribbled the ball a few yards.

  51. Young men and boys dribbled in and looked for letters in the rack, chatted with one another, and passed downstairs to the basement, in which was the student's reading-room.

  52. It was distorted with passion, and in her tumultuous speech the spittle dribbled over her lips.

  53. One hearty cheer arose as the train started, after which the crowd dribbled away from the platform.


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