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Example sentences for "trickles"

Lexicographically close words:
trickes; tricking; trickish; trickle; trickled; trickling; tricks; tricksome; trickster; tricksters
  1. After a heavy rain the surface water, accumulating in rivulets, may also be traced to small depressions which seem like leaks in the earth's crust, into which the water trickles and disappears.

  2. The ore is thrown into a furnace where the metal melts and trickles down, leaving behind the non-metallic impurities.

  3. On withdrawing the cell of water, the ice immediately liquefies, and the water trickles from it in drops.

  4. The water which trickles from the stalactite, after having in part yielded up its carbonate of lime, falls upon the floor vertically underneath, and there builds the stalagmite.

  5. Published 1820 [This Rill trickles down the hill-side into Windermere, near Low-wood.

  6. It trickles down the hill, So feebly, just for love of power and will, Yet to my mind the nameless thing is brought MS.

  7. Everywhere water is water and man is man, but as the former acquires a mysterious flavor from every stratum of earth that it flows or trickles through, so man acquires a peculiarity from his time, his nation, history, and fate.

  8. The river trickles as a narrow, winding stream through a broad swath of pebbles that it has swept down, and which annually it overflows.

  9. Water trickles and drops in the porous mass, and here and there small rivulets issue from openings in the snow.

  10. Numerous trickles of water collect into a rivulet, which rushes down among the stones.

  11. The valley becomes quite narrow, the water trickles out of the gravelly soil in quantities barely sufficient to form a brook.

  12. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!

  13. Amidst this cool translucent rill, That trickles down the glade, Here bathe your plumes, here drink your fill, And revel in the shade.

  14. Very much later in date is a charming vignette, representing a rock, over which a stream of water trickles and sparkles as it falls into a pool below.

  15. Prominent amongst these is that of 'Gilbert Wakefield,' which shows us a pretty scene: a stag stoops to drink from a rivulet that trickles through a wood.

  16. Through shallow ditches the floods are clearing away; Through sparse bamboos trickles a slanting light.

  17. There is one thing and one alone I never tire of watching-- The spring river as it trickles over the stones and babbles past the rocks.

  18. On the lotus-banks hovers a dewy breeze; Through the rice-furrows trickles a singing stream.

  19. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-trees trickles on my bare head.

  20. All day long the rain has been beating against the window-panes; a stream of water trickles down the window at the corner where it is broken.

  21. Little trickles of melted snow, working from pebble to pebble, had worn narrow beds beneath the bank.

  22. Water, distributing itself over the coke, trickles down to the bottom of the tower, and in so doing absorbs the hydrochloric acid gas rising upwards.

  23. In this tower are placed lumps of coke (the residue from the dry distillation of coal), over which sulphuric acid trickles from the reservoir M.

  24. This end tower is also filled with coke, over which a stream of strong sulphuric acid trickles from the reservoir M.

  25. The dirty water that trickles in the trench has covered it with a sandy glaze, and through the moist deposit the chest and belly bulge forth, clad in a shirt.

  26. To the left, the snow field sloped gradually to an almost flat surface of rock, over which flowed a hundred little trickles of water.

  27. Here the walking was not as good as on the other side of the stream, because springs and trickles of water were constantly coming down from the mountainside.

  28. As the decoction trickles slowly through the seams below, more is poured on from above, and from time to time the position of the hide is reversed in such a way that the tanning permeates each part in turn.

  29. The Majhi pours water from a brass vessel on to the topmost hand, and it trickles down from one to the other on to those of the candidate and his wife.

  30. She comes over and trickles sand down my neck.

  31. Let the expansion continue till the liquid trickles a second time over the top of the tube.

  32. Applying the heat of a spirit-lamp, the water rises in the tube, and finally trickles over the top.

  33. How glibly nonsense trickles from his tongue!

  34. Driven by grief he smites his own side, and as he stands over the wounds of the dead young ones, the blood trickles down, and thus are they made alive again.

  35. It melts, and even now the marble trickles down tears.

  36. They are inclosed by a kind of frame 28 feet high by 30 feet wide, and are protected by an overhanging cornice from the water which trickles down the face of the precipice.

  37. They have been carved at the mouth of a spacious natural cavern, whose roof is fretted with stalactites, and down whose sides trickles cool clear water, and hang dank ferns and creeping plants.

  38. The milk which comes out of the side cuts trickles down into the central channel, where it mixes with the milk which is oozing out therefrom.

  39. The caucho-milk runs out from the cuts and trickles down the trunk into a calabash.

  40. At the base of the trunk a calabash is put, and the latex trickles down into this by way of the zigzag cuts.

  41. The sap, which immediately begins to ooze out, trickles down into the hollow beneath.

  42. With a tool something like a chisel, the coolie takes a shaving off each strip of bark, whereupon milk oozes out from the cuts, makes for the central channel, and trickles down into an enamel cup that awaits it at the base of the trunk.

  43. He draws rein now that the city is behind him; he looks back, and a tear trickles down his cheek and mingles with his blood.

  44. The friction thus produced crushes the oil-seed, and the oil trickles out through a hole in the lower part of the trunk.


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