The place reeks with the ooze and drip of crushed apples.
And always that queer, mystical light, with exaggerated shadows and sometimes black darkness ahead, where could be heard the drip, drip, drip of water in invisible lakes.
Far off in the darkness sounded the steady drip, drip, drip of water, and several times our progress was stopped by black lakes into which a tossed stone would tell of depths that might be almost bottomless.
And ever and anon would the Spitfire dart into some little creek, and the thirsty rowers would rest on their oars, whose light dripfell on purple ocean, tinged by a purple sky.
But with his drip he forced a breach, And tried to poison me.
When the rains skim and skip, Why mar sweet comradeship, Blighting with poison-drip Neighbourly spray?
As the lettuces are planted out upon the benches there is very little drip from them, hence the sunken beds are well enough.
The hoar frost that appears in severe weather inside a single roof is likely to melt as the heat of the day increases, and this cold drip falling upon the beds below is very prejudicial to the mushroom crop.
It was from this direction that the sound of the drip, drip of falling water seemed to come.
Here two or three might have lain for days or weeks at a time, sheltered from wind or rain and secure from hostile eyes; it would be warm enough, {371}and the drip of water into it is so slight as to be hardly worth naming.
In the silence the dull thud of their footsteps on the rock beneath mingled with the drip, drip of the water overhead.
Sounds of calm that wrought the feeling Of the murmur of a shell, Of the drip of a lifted bucket In a wide and quiet well.
Its drip destroys most of the soil-exhausting weeds, its shade protects the soil from over-evaporation, and the heavy crop of leaves enriches it by their decomposition.
Now the clouds were pinning themselves up to dry on the pointed summits of the peaks, and were already beginning to drip on the world below.
Not a sound greeted my ears except the thud of rain upon sod roofs, the drip of water through stunted, scraggly trees.
Dip each skewer of kabobs in this; let them drip an instant, then lay them on a deep bed of crumbs or cracker meal.
In remote portions of the cave there are very large rooms, like Alabaster Hall, some of which are encumbered with fallen masses and with pillars of drip stone.
He saw, an opening between huge-trunked trees, and advanced through it, putting out the light and treading on dry footing as yet protected from the drip of the fog by the dense foliage overhead.
And on hands and knees, slowly and cautiously, he crawled on, till his knees were wet on the soggy mold, When he listened he heard naught but the moaning wind and the drip-drip of the fog from the branches.
Filtration means to drip through a porous substance, usually cloth or paper.
Later, he produced his Mo-Kof-Fee pot and an individual porcelain drip pot for testing-table use.
The device had two movable "filters" and was placed bottom up on the fire until the water boiled, when it was inverted to let the coffee "filter" or drip through.
In 1822, Louis Bernard Rabaut was granted an English patent on a coffee-making device in which the usual French drip process was reversed by the use of steam pressure to force the boiling water upward through the coffee mass.
The most satisfactory grind for a cloth dripbag has the consistency of powdered sugar and shows a slight grit when rubbed between thumb and finger.
The first French patent on an improved French drip pot for making coffee "by filtration without boiling" was granted to Hadrot in 1806.
Those most advanced in the correct method of brewing use the drip process.
There was no sound but the steady drip from the leaves.
Dreamer, say, will you dream of love That lives in a land of sweet perfume, Where the stars drip down from the skies above In molten spatters of bud and bloom?
The old clock down in the parlor Like a sleepless mourner grieves, And the seconds drip in the silence As the rain drips from the eaves.
It was at that very time wet with the drip from the cavern roof, a drip falling at the rate of thirty-four drops a minute.
With this view the water is allowed to fall at the rate of fifty or sixty drops a minute, the drip being maintained at numerous points simultaneously.
At Matlock the drip is continuous, being supplied by a stream, and not being, as in Kent’s cavern, dependent on the chances of the rainfall and the quantity of water that may percolate through a limestone roof.
In Kent’s cavern, on the other hand, the drip is often interrupted.
It cannot reasonably be supposed in any year to produce even a twentieth of the effect we have estimated for the drip at Matlock.
Leave todrip forty-eight hours unless the weather turns suddenly warm, damp and muggy--in that case start the smoking after a few hours.
There should be holes or cracks in the bottom to let the dissolved salt drip away; it is best also to have it a foot at least above the floor.
Clean the drip pan whenever you clean the ice chest.
Wash the baby's face carefully so that the water does not drip into its ears.
When doing this the wash cloth should not be so wet that it will drip and wet the bed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
