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Example sentences for "dribbling"

Lexicographically close words:
drey; dria; dribble; dribbled; dribbles; dribe; driblet; driblets; drie; dried
  1. Whichever side then secures the ball endeavours by means of passing and dribbling to get the puck into a position from which a goal may be shot.

  2. The rushers must be rapid skaters, adepts in dribbling and passing and good goal shots.

  3. Every player is taught to dive for the ball whenever he sees it on the ground, as possession is of cardinal importance in American football, and dribbling for this reason is unknown.

  4. Even up to the middle of the 'seventies dribbling was looked upon as the great desideratum; it was the essential for a forward, just as long kicks were the main object of a back.

  5. Instead of close dribbling and following up, the new formation makes for accuracy of passing among the forwards, with intelligent support from the half-backs.

  6. The parotid gland is swollen and tender, there is pain on attempting to open the mouth, difficulty in swallowing, and dribbling of saliva.

  7. In such cases the movement of the jaw is in time partly restored, and the patient acquires sufficient control of the lips to be able to articulate intelligibly and to prevent dribbling of saliva.

  8. Unless regularly emptied by the catheter, the bladder becomes distended, and there is dribbling of urine--the overflow from the full bladder.

  9. There is retention of urine followed by dribbling from overflow.

  10. There is at first retention of urine, followed by dribbling from overflow, and sugar is sometimes found in the urine.

  11. George, as he watched her worthless tears dribbling down upon the valuable manuscript, began to think that perhaps, after all, his sister had wished him to blame, instead of approving of her decision.

  12. The shower of lawyers' letters is dribbling and dropping more slowly.

  13. Up it he went, a tiny trickle of dislodged shale dribbling away beneath his feet.

  14. He turned in his stride, and the lamp showed the tears dribbling down his face.

  15. Cabbage Hall, the northernmost, plays the part of stealthy seducer, dribbling out among the fields in colourless disorder, entrapping them in the dreariest fashion, without a hint of glamour.

  16. For many weeks past he has been dribbling across the Weichsel hitherward, into various small camps, with Cossack Parties flying about, under check of General Platen.

  17. The symptoms are frequent stretching and straining to urinate, with no result or a slight dribbling only.

  18. Some seek to establish sympathetic action by pouring water from one vessel into another with dribbling noise.

  19. The symptoms are a constant dribbling of urine when the neck is involved, the liquid running down the inside of the thighs and irritating the skin.

  20. The protruding tongue itself may ulcerate, possibly bleed, and there is constant dribbling of saliva.

  21. The chin he used to maintain the tongue-plate, to diminish the deformity, and to retain the saliva, which was constantly dribbling on the neck.

  22. The month was nigh spent when Hodge one morning entered the chamber of his master, who sat there dribbling away the time over a treatise on archery.

  23. Yes, And I daresay blood dribbling here and there.

  24. After this smoke issued from the chimney, and other men, one by one from other huts, came dribbling out into the day, until altogether we had counted seven.

  25. Cainy Ball and Joseph, who performed this latter operation, were if possible wetter than the rest; they resembled dolphins under a fountain, every protuberance and angle of their clothes dribbling forth a small rill.

  26. She watched them flouncing into the pool, drinking, tossing up their heads, drinking again, the water dribbling from their lips in silver threads.

  27. Soppy little plants of the portulaca and small, fine ferns shiver under the drip of falls and in dribbling crevices.

  28. The urine was dribbling out; it was evident that the child had never completely emptied its bladder.

  29. It was a calm day and misty, so that I could not see far out across the sea-ice, but so far it was evident that the birds were not arriving in batches, but just dribbling in.

  30. They had contrived that effective little touch by dribbling a bit of melted butter down the barrel before firing.

  31. Best of all, he had a temper which nothing from a leak in the tent dribbling down his neck to a half hour up to his waist in ice-cold water seemed equal to ruffling.

  32. The sharp ruby glint was missing from his erstwhile pyramidic facets; now they looked dull crimson, and ropy, like taffy that has congealed after boiling over and dribbling down the side of the saucepan.

  33. The only hitch we encountered in our upward race was that spray-happy torrent which Clatclit couldn't cross without dribbling to death.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dribbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    awash; drenched; drowned; engulfed; flooded; immersed; inundated; permeated; saturated; secretion; soaked; soaking; sodden; soggy; sopping; soused; submerged; swamped; waterlogged; weeping