Definition of trickle in English:

trickle

verb ˈtrɪk(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l

1no object, with adverbial of direction (of a liquid) flow in a small stream.
a solitary tear trickled down her cheek
Example sentencesExamples
- This was a beautiful piece of work where one could almost hear the water trickling over the flagstones.
- It was one of those units where the water trickles over an electric coil to heat it up.
- The water trickling from the mine has a pH of about 0.8 and a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Warm liquid trickled from separate areas on her face.
- If your position is correct, water will trickle out your left nostril.
- Black cherry stained liquid trickled out from the folds of canvas.
- These rocks cause the steam to condense and the water trickles into a clay channel and receptacle, where it collects and cools.
- Soon a sweet purple liquid was trickling out of the spout into the container she had placed underneath.
- Even there, in too many of the pipes, the water trickles out so feebly as to be useless.
- We were shown into a smart little auditorium where big speakers were pumping out relaxing little sounds of birds chirping and water trickling.
- That night they found a small stream with fresh, clean, water trickling toward the ocean to their right.
- He felt water trickling inside the box, and realized that the casket was leaking slightly.
- Through a hole pierced in the centre of the sheet, water would trickle into the vessel kept beneath it.
- Then, he just sat there, staring at the water trickling out of the fountain.
- Diners encounter a massive smooth slab of onyx, backlit with water trickling behind it, when they enter the restaurant, and are welcomed by polite and attentive waiters.
- Water is trickling over pale, crusty rocks into clear, tiny pools.
- He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth.
- Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses.
- The microbes convert the hydrogen sulfide into odorless hydrogen sulfate, which is carried away by water trickling over the foam.
- Our bodies, faces, and hair drip with rain water trickling to the ground.
Synonyms
drip, dribble, drizzle, flow, run, spill
ooze, leak, seep, exude, percolate
1. 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Cause (a liquid) to flow in a small stream.
  Philip trickled a line of sauce on his fish fingers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her cheeks were covered in tiny scrapes and a larger wound was already trickling a small stream of crimson blood down the middle of her forehead.
  Small amounts of oxygen are trickled through the fermentation tank causing the yeasts to thrive and produce a Chianti almost unrecognisable for its voluptuous concentration of fruit.
  Should she just leave him there, trickling blood on the carpet?
  Cool to lukewarm and then trickle the egg and water over the stuffing, mixing it in lightly until the stuffing is moist yet still rather crumbly.
  If I weren't already sweating, I'd be trickling some now.
  Pushing the ‘dispense’ button automatically trickles the desired charge weight into the scale pan.
  By the end of the game, he looked the part with stitches closing two gashes over the bridge of his nose and another cut on the corner of his eye still trickling blood.
  She let out the tiniest bit of pressure and power, sending him shattering out of her mind as his nose trickled blood.
  Fold the pancake neatly into a triangle, place on a plate, trickle the sauce around the pancake and serve immediately.
  Slowly, she raised her face to Bran, covered with shallow cuts trickling blood.
  For some reason, which no one can prove to my knowledge, when black powder is trickled into the cartridge case through a drop tube it burns more cleanly.
  I didn't answer her, just kept scrubbing the toilet clean while Colleen trickled Visine into her eyes.
  The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges.
  Here he is seen comforted by stablemates while the cut above his left eye trickles blood from jostling with the crowd.
  The keeper was slow to retreat as his opposite number, Scott Howie, cleared, and substitute Jody Banim trickled the ball into the empty net from 45 yards via a deflection off Durkin.
  Gas emissions and volcanic tremors have been high for months and the volcano has expelled boulders and trickled lava in recent weeks.
  She trickled the acid over the body, focusing mostly on his face, and hands, though the packet held enough to dissolve most of the entire body.
  A cut curved slightly downward on her left cheek, still trickling minute amounts of blood on the sundress.
  I slid onto a chair next to his and pushed the glass nearer to him with two paracetamol tablets and trickled my fingers through his scruffy hair playfully.
  Without hesitation, he brought the canteen to Joe's lips and trickled some water into his son's mouth.
2. 1.2 Come or go slowly or gradually.
  the first members of the congregation began to trickle in
  Example sentencesExamples
  Even with Bishop Belo there to take the mass, the people held back and trickled very slowly into the church.
  Ideas spread, trickling any which direction they can.
  Along the way there is a slow but steady trickling stream of septuagenarians, slipping their way down to the round stone tower by the beach.
  Second and third periods had trickled by after that, maybe not skipping past as quickly as Sociology had, but not passing in a manner so slow that I could complain.
  And I really went week after week, month after month, before the details of what was going on in that family slowly began to trickle out.
  This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground.
  The life slowly trickled away from Kira as her vision began to darken.
  They literally shook the ground in which we were standing here, quite loud explosions, and it sounded a long way away from the information that slowly now is trickling to us.
  On the other hand Kildare were handsomely predictable as the early days of 2003 trickled by.
  As the minutes started to slowly trickle by, Bastian sat in silence and began to wait.
  As the clock struck half past five the crowd was slowly trickling in.
  He put on his basketball uniform and began to loosen his muscles while his teammates slowly trickled in and follow suit.
  As we trickle day by day through the end of October and move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties.
  With all of the food eaten, and the time growing late, people began to slowly trickle out of the dining hall, until only a few people were left.
  His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side.
  Two guards took their positions on either side of the door and opened it as the kingdom's residents began to trickle in slowly.
  They almost added another a minute later when a pull by Jarlath Sweeney trickled inches wide of the upright.
  Christiane, time is obviously of the essence, and you said aid is trickling in slowly.
  Lunch break ends and the men slowly trickle back into the room.
  National council decisions aren't usually publicised to members, so this information is only trickling out to members slowly.

noun ˈtrɪk(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l

1A small flow of liquid.
a trickle of blood
Example sentencesExamples
- Her eyes widened as Jesse stood there, small trickles of blood dripping from his clenched hands.
- But it wasn't enough control to stop the trickle of cream-laden coffee from splashing down the front of my shirt.
- Combined with ice cubes and a little bit of essence, the trickles of liquid from crushed melons go on to become a sweet delicacy.
- There was a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth.
- A warm trickle began to flow down his leg, either blood or urine.
- Thin trickles of water slowly ran down the sheet of glass.
- Several small trickles of blood flow down the side of his neck.
- She noticed, trailing from the corner of the frozen grimace of his mouth, a trickle of mealy yellow liquid that was drying into a crust on his cheek.
- The trickle of blood flowed from his nose ever so much more slowly.
- The beast shifted; a trickle of blood flowed anew, tracing patterns on the hide.
- His arms were covered in small trickles of blood that flowed from the many burns on his body.
- I gasped loudly as I felt the warm trickle of blood flowing from my back.
- A faint smile stretched her cracked lips; a trickle of blood suddenly flowed over her parched lips.
- I stand at the counter while the barista lowers the handle on the powerful espresso machine, watching the thin trickle of aromatic liquid.
- A small trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth down his chin.
- I collapsed behind a car cradling my head, feeling fresh trickles of blood flow down my face.
- A small trickle of blood wound its way along his palm, emanating from a fine slice in his skin that was deep enough to have been caused by a razor.
- He felt the warm trickle of blood dripping from the wound.
- In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle.
- His eyes were glazed with pain, and a thin trickle of blood flowed out of his mouth and down his chin.
Synonyms
dribble, drip, thin stream, rivulet, runnel
1. 1.1 A small group or number of people or things moving slowly.
  the traffic had dwindled to a trickle
  Example sentencesExamples
  Feelings flow in little trickles, slow but steady.
  In the last half-a-year, the number of visitors here has almost doubled while the ‘take’ has dropped to a trickle.
  We're taking trickles and bits from what the police tell us.
  People were entering in a steady trickle, some of them touching the high stone threshold with their right hands, and raising their hands to their heads.
  But even in the best of times, the emerging markets end up bidding for no more than a trickle of global capital flows.
  Since news from the war seems to have dwindled to a trickle, it is an interesting way of keeping track of our troops - and a very personal one too.
  Radio space slowly trickles out as the Federal Communications Commission frees more of the spectrum for real-world uses.
  She imagined it encompassing her entire body, and as she did, she felt a familiar trickle of power slowly begin to manifest itself across the surface of her skin.
  Otherwise, immigration from Bulgaria during these years had dwindled to a trickle.
  This small trickle of people slowly grew and at the moment there are 11 local women taking part and their numbers continue to grow.
  Bit by bit, the trickle of fear was becoming stronger and stronger in Maya's heart.
  With rental income dwindling to a mere trickle on many estates in 1880-81, signs of alarm in the Big House were not hard to find.
  The airport ran until the 1980s - the traffic slowly coming down to a trickle.
  Overnight, the torrent of East German refugees drops to a trickle.
  Fresh new buying migrates in slowly, a trickle at first that may grow into a deluge many years later.
  For years, all was quiet as the Western frontier was slowly settled by a trickle of pioneers.
  Other teams slowly followed - more of a trickle than a wave.
  In the past two years, the supply of clergy coming out of Canadian seminaries has dwindled to a trickle.
  Synthesised melodies swell from ambient trickles into great, lush waves and splash over crisp breakbeats.
  It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle.

Phrasal Verbs

trickle down

(of wealth) gradually benefit the poorest as a result of the increasing wealth of the richest.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm just hoping that performance and cost benefits will trickle down to the consumer more readily.
- Anything which trickles down wealth from board room to the worker must be applauded, as indeed must any scheme which encourages prudent investing and enables people to save tax.
- In many cases, there is little trickle down benefit to the wider population in these countries.
- In other words, if the rich do well, the benefits will trickle down to the rest.
- The widening gap between rich and poor didn't matter because wealth trickled down.
- As we've learned in the last twenty years, wealth may not trickle down very often.
- There is no such thing in this country or this world as trickle down wealth.
- No longer applicable, then, is the old theory of material benefits trickling down to the poor as the economy flies.
- There is also some debate regarding the benefits of the reforms trickling down to the lowest strata of Indian society.
- The trickle down benefits for Scotland's professional and financial services infrastructure has been huge.

Origin

Middle English (as a verb): imitative.

Rhymes

chicle, fickle, mickle, nickel, pickle, prickle, sickle, strickle, tickle

Definition of trickle in US English:

trickle

verbˈtrik(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l

1no object, with adverbial of direction (of a liquid) flow in a small stream.
a solitary tear trickled down her cheek
a trickling brook
Example sentencesExamples
- This was a beautiful piece of work where one could almost hear the water trickling over the flagstones.
- The water trickling from the mine has a pH of about 0.8 and a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Black cherry stained liquid trickled out from the folds of canvas.
- He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth.
- If your position is correct, water will trickle out your left nostril.
- Even there, in too many of the pipes, the water trickles out so feebly as to be useless.
- These rocks cause the steam to condense and the water trickles into a clay channel and receptacle, where it collects and cools.
- Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses.
- Soon a sweet purple liquid was trickling out of the spout into the container she had placed underneath.
- Our bodies, faces, and hair drip with rain water trickling to the ground.
- Water is trickling over pale, crusty rocks into clear, tiny pools.
- Through a hole pierced in the centre of the sheet, water would trickle into the vessel kept beneath it.
- He felt water trickling inside the box, and realized that the casket was leaking slightly.
- Warm liquid trickled from separate areas on her face.
- That night they found a small stream with fresh, clean, water trickling toward the ocean to their right.
- It was one of those units where the water trickles over an electric coil to heat it up.
- The microbes convert the hydrogen sulfide into odorless hydrogen sulfate, which is carried away by water trickling over the foam.
- Diners encounter a massive smooth slab of onyx, backlit with water trickling behind it, when they enter the restaurant, and are welcomed by polite and attentive waiters.
- We were shown into a smart little auditorium where big speakers were pumping out relaxing little sounds of birds chirping and water trickling.
- Then, he just sat there, staring at the water trickling out of the fountain.
Synonyms
drip, dribble, drizzle, flow, run, spill
1. 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Cause (a liquid) to flow in a small stream.
  he trickled the vodka onto the rocks
  Example sentencesExamples
  Pushing the ‘dispense’ button automatically trickles the desired charge weight into the scale pan.
  Fold the pancake neatly into a triangle, place on a plate, trickle the sauce around the pancake and serve immediately.
  I didn't answer her, just kept scrubbing the toilet clean while Colleen trickled Visine into her eyes.
  The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges.
  By the end of the game, he looked the part with stitches closing two gashes over the bridge of his nose and another cut on the corner of his eye still trickling blood.
  Cool to lukewarm and then trickle the egg and water over the stuffing, mixing it in lightly until the stuffing is moist yet still rather crumbly.
  Without hesitation, he brought the canteen to Joe's lips and trickled some water into his son's mouth.
  I slid onto a chair next to his and pushed the glass nearer to him with two paracetamol tablets and trickled my fingers through his scruffy hair playfully.
  Here he is seen comforted by stablemates while the cut above his left eye trickles blood from jostling with the crowd.
  For some reason, which no one can prove to my knowledge, when black powder is trickled into the cartridge case through a drop tube it burns more cleanly.
  Gas emissions and volcanic tremors have been high for months and the volcano has expelled boulders and trickled lava in recent weeks.
  Slowly, she raised her face to Bran, covered with shallow cuts trickling blood.
  The keeper was slow to retreat as his opposite number, Scott Howie, cleared, and substitute Jody Banim trickled the ball into the empty net from 45 yards via a deflection off Durkin.
  Should she just leave him there, trickling blood on the carpet?
  Her cheeks were covered in tiny scrapes and a larger wound was already trickling a small stream of crimson blood down the middle of her forehead.
  If I weren't already sweating, I'd be trickling some now.
  Small amounts of oxygen are trickled through the fermentation tank causing the yeasts to thrive and produce a Chianti almost unrecognisable for its voluptuous concentration of fruit.
  A cut curved slightly downward on her left cheek, still trickling minute amounts of blood on the sundress.
  She let out the tiniest bit of pressure and power, sending him shattering out of her mind as his nose trickled blood.
  She trickled the acid over the body, focusing mostly on his face, and hands, though the packet held enough to dissolve most of the entire body.
2. 1.2 Come or go slowly or gradually.
  the details began to trickle out
  Example sentencesExamples
  His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side.
  This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground.
  The life slowly trickled away from Kira as her vision began to darken.
  On the other hand Kildare were handsomely predictable as the early days of 2003 trickled by.
  Second and third periods had trickled by after that, maybe not skipping past as quickly as Sociology had, but not passing in a manner so slow that I could complain.
  As the minutes started to slowly trickle by, Bastian sat in silence and began to wait.
  Along the way there is a slow but steady trickling stream of septuagenarians, slipping their way down to the round stone tower by the beach.
  With all of the food eaten, and the time growing late, people began to slowly trickle out of the dining hall, until only a few people were left.
  Ideas spread, trickling any which direction they can.
  Christiane, time is obviously of the essence, and you said aid is trickling in slowly.
  Even with Bishop Belo there to take the mass, the people held back and trickled very slowly into the church.
  As the clock struck half past five the crowd was slowly trickling in.
  Two guards took their positions on either side of the door and opened it as the kingdom's residents began to trickle in slowly.
  Lunch break ends and the men slowly trickle back into the room.
  As we trickle day by day through the end of October and move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties.
  He put on his basketball uniform and began to loosen his muscles while his teammates slowly trickled in and follow suit.
  And I really went week after week, month after month, before the details of what was going on in that family slowly began to trickle out.
  They almost added another a minute later when a pull by Jarlath Sweeney trickled inches wide of the upright.
  They literally shook the ground in which we were standing here, quite loud explosions, and it sounded a long way away from the information that slowly now is trickling to us.
  National council decisions aren't usually publicised to members, so this information is only trickling out to members slowly.

nounˈtrik(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l

1A small flow of liquid.
a trickle of blood
Example sentencesExamples
- There was a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth.
- He felt the warm trickle of blood dripping from the wound.
- A small trickle of blood wound its way along his palm, emanating from a fine slice in his skin that was deep enough to have been caused by a razor.
- A small trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth down his chin.
- Her eyes widened as Jesse stood there, small trickles of blood dripping from his clenched hands.
- Combined with ice cubes and a little bit of essence, the trickles of liquid from crushed melons go on to become a sweet delicacy.
- His arms were covered in small trickles of blood that flowed from the many burns on his body.
- Thin trickles of water slowly ran down the sheet of glass.
- The trickle of blood flowed from his nose ever so much more slowly.
- The beast shifted; a trickle of blood flowed anew, tracing patterns on the hide.
- I stand at the counter while the barista lowers the handle on the powerful espresso machine, watching the thin trickle of aromatic liquid.
- His eyes were glazed with pain, and a thin trickle of blood flowed out of his mouth and down his chin.
- A faint smile stretched her cracked lips; a trickle of blood suddenly flowed over her parched lips.
- A warm trickle began to flow down his leg, either blood or urine.
- Several small trickles of blood flow down the side of his neck.
- In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle.
- She noticed, trailing from the corner of the frozen grimace of his mouth, a trickle of mealy yellow liquid that was drying into a crust on his cheek.
- I gasped loudly as I felt the warm trickle of blood flowing from my back.
- I collapsed behind a car cradling my head, feeling fresh trickles of blood flow down my face.
- But it wasn't enough control to stop the trickle of cream-laden coffee from splashing down the front of my shirt.
Synonyms
dribble, drip, thin stream, rivulet, runnel
1. 1.1 A small group or number of people or things moving slowly.
  the traffic had dwindled to a trickle
  Example sentencesExamples
  For years, all was quiet as the Western frontier was slowly settled by a trickle of pioneers.
  Synthesised melodies swell from ambient trickles into great, lush waves and splash over crisp breakbeats.
  In the past two years, the supply of clergy coming out of Canadian seminaries has dwindled to a trickle.
  Feelings flow in little trickles, slow but steady.
  Overnight, the torrent of East German refugees drops to a trickle.
  The airport ran until the 1980s - the traffic slowly coming down to a trickle.
  It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle.
  She imagined it encompassing her entire body, and as she did, she felt a familiar trickle of power slowly begin to manifest itself across the surface of her skin.
  Bit by bit, the trickle of fear was becoming stronger and stronger in Maya's heart.
  But even in the best of times, the emerging markets end up bidding for no more than a trickle of global capital flows.
  Radio space slowly trickles out as the Federal Communications Commission frees more of the spectrum for real-world uses.
  Other teams slowly followed - more of a trickle than a wave.
  This small trickle of people slowly grew and at the moment there are 11 local women taking part and their numbers continue to grow.
  In the last half-a-year, the number of visitors here has almost doubled while the ‘take’ has dropped to a trickle.
  Fresh new buying migrates in slowly, a trickle at first that may grow into a deluge many years later.
  Since news from the war seems to have dwindled to a trickle, it is an interesting way of keeping track of our troops - and a very personal one too.
  With rental income dwindling to a mere trickle on many estates in 1880-81, signs of alarm in the Big House were not hard to find.
  Otherwise, immigration from Bulgaria during these years had dwindled to a trickle.
  People were entering in a steady trickle, some of them touching the high stone threshold with their right hands, and raising their hands to their heads.
  We're taking trickles and bits from what the police tell us.

Phrasal Verbs

trickle down

(of wealth) gradually benefit the poorest as a result of the increasing wealth of the richest.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm just hoping that performance and cost benefits will trickle down to the consumer more readily.
- No longer applicable, then, is the old theory of material benefits trickling down to the poor as the economy flies.
- There is also some debate regarding the benefits of the reforms trickling down to the lowest strata of Indian society.
- The widening gap between rich and poor didn't matter because wealth trickled down.
- In many cases, there is little trickle down benefit to the wider population in these countries.
- Anything which trickles down wealth from board room to the worker must be applauded, as indeed must any scheme which encourages prudent investing and enables people to save tax.
- The trickle down benefits for Scotland's professional and financial services infrastructure has been huge.
- In other words, if the rich do well, the benefits will trickle down to the rest.
- There is no such thing in this country or this world as trickle down wealth.
- As we've learned in the last twenty years, wealth may not trickle down very often.

Origin

Middle English (as a verb): imitative.

单词	trickle
释义	Definition of trickle in English: trickle verb ˈtrɪk(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l 1no object, with adverbial of direction (of a liquid) flow in a small stream. a solitary tear trickled down her cheek Example sentencesExamples This was a beautiful piece of work where one could almost hear the water trickling over the flagstones. It was one of those units where the water trickles over an electric coil to heat it up. The water trickling from the mine has a pH of about 0.8 and a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Warm liquid trickled from separate areas on her face. If your position is correct, water will trickle out your left nostril. Black cherry stained liquid trickled out from the folds of canvas. These rocks cause the steam to condense and the water trickles into a clay channel and receptacle, where it collects and cools. Soon a sweet purple liquid was trickling out of the spout into the container she had placed underneath. Even there, in too many of the pipes, the water trickles out so feebly as to be useless. We were shown into a smart little auditorium where big speakers were pumping out relaxing little sounds of birds chirping and water trickling. That night they found a small stream with fresh, clean, water trickling toward the ocean to their right. He felt water trickling inside the box, and realized that the casket was leaking slightly. Through a hole pierced in the centre of the sheet, water would trickle into the vessel kept beneath it. Then, he just sat there, staring at the water trickling out of the fountain. Diners encounter a massive smooth slab of onyx, backlit with water trickling behind it, when they enter the restaurant, and are welcomed by polite and attentive waiters. Water is trickling over pale, crusty rocks into clear, tiny pools. He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth. Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses. The microbes convert the hydrogen sulfide into odorless hydrogen sulfate, which is carried away by water trickling over the foam. Our bodies, faces, and hair drip with rain water trickling to the ground. Synonyms drip, dribble, drizzle, flow, run, spill ooze, leak, seep, exude, percolate 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Cause (a liquid) to flow in a small stream. Philip trickled a line of sauce on his fish fingers Example sentencesExamples Her cheeks were covered in tiny scrapes and a larger wound was already trickling a small stream of crimson blood down the middle of her forehead. Small amounts of oxygen are trickled through the fermentation tank causing the yeasts to thrive and produce a Chianti almost unrecognisable for its voluptuous concentration of fruit. Should she just leave him there, trickling blood on the carpet? Cool to lukewarm and then trickle the egg and water over the stuffing, mixing it in lightly until the stuffing is moist yet still rather crumbly. If I weren't already sweating, I'd be trickling some now. Pushing the ‘dispense’ button automatically trickles the desired charge weight into the scale pan. By the end of the game, he looked the part with stitches closing two gashes over the bridge of his nose and another cut on the corner of his eye still trickling blood. She let out the tiniest bit of pressure and power, sending him shattering out of her mind as his nose trickled blood. Fold the pancake neatly into a triangle, place on a plate, trickle the sauce around the pancake and serve immediately. Slowly, she raised her face to Bran, covered with shallow cuts trickling blood. For some reason, which no one can prove to my knowledge, when black powder is trickled into the cartridge case through a drop tube it burns more cleanly. I didn't answer her, just kept scrubbing the toilet clean while Colleen trickled Visine into her eyes. The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges. Here he is seen comforted by stablemates while the cut above his left eye trickles blood from jostling with the crowd. The keeper was slow to retreat as his opposite number, Scott Howie, cleared, and substitute Jody Banim trickled the ball into the empty net from 45 yards via a deflection off Durkin. Gas emissions and volcanic tremors have been high for months and the volcano has expelled boulders and trickled lava in recent weeks. She trickled the acid over the body, focusing mostly on his face, and hands, though the packet held enough to dissolve most of the entire body. A cut curved slightly downward on her left cheek, still trickling minute amounts of blood on the sundress. I slid onto a chair next to his and pushed the glass nearer to him with two paracetamol tablets and trickled my fingers through his scruffy hair playfully. Without hesitation, he brought the canteen to Joe's lips and trickled some water into his son's mouth. 1.2 Come or go slowly or gradually. the first members of the congregation began to trickle in Example sentencesExamples Even with Bishop Belo there to take the mass, the people held back and trickled very slowly into the church. Ideas spread, trickling any which direction they can. Along the way there is a slow but steady trickling stream of septuagenarians, slipping their way down to the round stone tower by the beach. Second and third periods had trickled by after that, maybe not skipping past as quickly as Sociology had, but not passing in a manner so slow that I could complain. And I really went week after week, month after month, before the details of what was going on in that family slowly began to trickle out. This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground. The life slowly trickled away from Kira as her vision began to darken. They literally shook the ground in which we were standing here, quite loud explosions, and it sounded a long way away from the information that slowly now is trickling to us. On the other hand Kildare were handsomely predictable as the early days of 2003 trickled by. As the minutes started to slowly trickle by, Bastian sat in silence and began to wait. As the clock struck half past five the crowd was slowly trickling in. He put on his basketball uniform and began to loosen his muscles while his teammates slowly trickled in and follow suit. As we trickle day by day through the end of October and move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties. With all of the food eaten, and the time growing late, people began to slowly trickle out of the dining hall, until only a few people were left. His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side. Two guards took their positions on either side of the door and opened it as the kingdom's residents began to trickle in slowly. They almost added another a minute later when a pull by Jarlath Sweeney trickled inches wide of the upright. Christiane, time is obviously of the essence, and you said aid is trickling in slowly. Lunch break ends and the men slowly trickle back into the room. National council decisions aren't usually publicised to members, so this information is only trickling out to members slowly. noun ˈtrɪk(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l 1A small flow of liquid. a trickle of blood Example sentencesExamples Her eyes widened as Jesse stood there, small trickles of blood dripping from his clenched hands. But it wasn't enough control to stop the trickle of cream-laden coffee from splashing down the front of my shirt. Combined with ice cubes and a little bit of essence, the trickles of liquid from crushed melons go on to become a sweet delicacy. There was a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. A warm trickle began to flow down his leg, either blood or urine. Thin trickles of water slowly ran down the sheet of glass. Several small trickles of blood flow down the side of his neck. She noticed, trailing from the corner of the frozen grimace of his mouth, a trickle of mealy yellow liquid that was drying into a crust on his cheek. The trickle of blood flowed from his nose ever so much more slowly. The beast shifted; a trickle of blood flowed anew, tracing patterns on the hide. His arms were covered in small trickles of blood that flowed from the many burns on his body. I gasped loudly as I felt the warm trickle of blood flowing from my back. A faint smile stretched her cracked lips; a trickle of blood suddenly flowed over her parched lips. I stand at the counter while the barista lowers the handle on the powerful espresso machine, watching the thin trickle of aromatic liquid. A small trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth down his chin. I collapsed behind a car cradling my head, feeling fresh trickles of blood flow down my face. A small trickle of blood wound its way along his palm, emanating from a fine slice in his skin that was deep enough to have been caused by a razor. He felt the warm trickle of blood dripping from the wound. In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle. His eyes were glazed with pain, and a thin trickle of blood flowed out of his mouth and down his chin. Synonyms dribble, drip, thin stream, rivulet, runnel 1.1 A small group or number of people or things moving slowly. the traffic had dwindled to a trickle Example sentencesExamples Feelings flow in little trickles, slow but steady. In the last half-a-year, the number of visitors here has almost doubled while the ‘take’ has dropped to a trickle. We're taking trickles and bits from what the police tell us. People were entering in a steady trickle, some of them touching the high stone threshold with their right hands, and raising their hands to their heads. But even in the best of times, the emerging markets end up bidding for no more than a trickle of global capital flows. Since news from the war seems to have dwindled to a trickle, it is an interesting way of keeping track of our troops - and a very personal one too. Radio space slowly trickles out as the Federal Communications Commission frees more of the spectrum for real-world uses. She imagined it encompassing her entire body, and as she did, she felt a familiar trickle of power slowly begin to manifest itself across the surface of her skin. Otherwise, immigration from Bulgaria during these years had dwindled to a trickle. This small trickle of people slowly grew and at the moment there are 11 local women taking part and their numbers continue to grow. Bit by bit, the trickle of fear was becoming stronger and stronger in Maya's heart. With rental income dwindling to a mere trickle on many estates in 1880-81, signs of alarm in the Big House were not hard to find. The airport ran until the 1980s - the traffic slowly coming down to a trickle. Overnight, the torrent of East German refugees drops to a trickle. Fresh new buying migrates in slowly, a trickle at first that may grow into a deluge many years later. For years, all was quiet as the Western frontier was slowly settled by a trickle of pioneers. Other teams slowly followed - more of a trickle than a wave. In the past two years, the supply of clergy coming out of Canadian seminaries has dwindled to a trickle. Synthesised melodies swell from ambient trickles into great, lush waves and splash over crisp breakbeats. It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle. Phrasal Verbs trickle down (of wealth) gradually benefit the poorest as a result of the increasing wealth of the richest. Example sentencesExamples I'm just hoping that performance and cost benefits will trickle down to the consumer more readily. Anything which trickles down wealth from board room to the worker must be applauded, as indeed must any scheme which encourages prudent investing and enables people to save tax. In many cases, there is little trickle down benefit to the wider population in these countries. In other words, if the rich do well, the benefits will trickle down to the rest. The widening gap between rich and poor didn't matter because wealth trickled down. As we've learned in the last twenty years, wealth may not trickle down very often. There is no such thing in this country or this world as trickle down wealth. No longer applicable, then, is the old theory of material benefits trickling down to the poor as the economy flies. There is also some debate regarding the benefits of the reforms trickling down to the lowest strata of Indian society. The trickle down benefits for Scotland's professional and financial services infrastructure has been huge. Origin Middle English (as a verb): imitative. Rhymes chicle, fickle, mickle, nickel, pickle, prickle, sickle, strickle, tickle verb.1 phr.v. Definition of trickle in US English: trickle verbˈtrik(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l 1no object, with adverbial of direction (of a liquid) flow in a small stream. a solitary tear trickled down her cheek a trickling brook Example sentencesExamples This was a beautiful piece of work where one could almost hear the water trickling over the flagstones. The water trickling from the mine has a pH of about 0.8 and a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Black cherry stained liquid trickled out from the folds of canvas. He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth. If your position is correct, water will trickle out your left nostril. Even there, in too many of the pipes, the water trickles out so feebly as to be useless. These rocks cause the steam to condense and the water trickles into a clay channel and receptacle, where it collects and cools. Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses. Soon a sweet purple liquid was trickling out of the spout into the container she had placed underneath. Our bodies, faces, and hair drip with rain water trickling to the ground. Water is trickling over pale, crusty rocks into clear, tiny pools. Through a hole pierced in the centre of the sheet, water would trickle into the vessel kept beneath it. He felt water trickling inside the box, and realized that the casket was leaking slightly. Warm liquid trickled from separate areas on her face. That night they found a small stream with fresh, clean, water trickling toward the ocean to their right. It was one of those units where the water trickles over an electric coil to heat it up. The microbes convert the hydrogen sulfide into odorless hydrogen sulfate, which is carried away by water trickling over the foam. Diners encounter a massive smooth slab of onyx, backlit with water trickling behind it, when they enter the restaurant, and are welcomed by polite and attentive waiters. We were shown into a smart little auditorium where big speakers were pumping out relaxing little sounds of birds chirping and water trickling. Then, he just sat there, staring at the water trickling out of the fountain. Synonyms drip, dribble, drizzle, flow, run, spill 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Cause (a liquid) to flow in a small stream. he trickled the vodka onto the rocks Example sentencesExamples Pushing the ‘dispense’ button automatically trickles the desired charge weight into the scale pan. Fold the pancake neatly into a triangle, place on a plate, trickle the sauce around the pancake and serve immediately. I didn't answer her, just kept scrubbing the toilet clean while Colleen trickled Visine into her eyes. The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges. By the end of the game, he looked the part with stitches closing two gashes over the bridge of his nose and another cut on the corner of his eye still trickling blood. Cool to lukewarm and then trickle the egg and water over the stuffing, mixing it in lightly until the stuffing is moist yet still rather crumbly. Without hesitation, he brought the canteen to Joe's lips and trickled some water into his son's mouth. I slid onto a chair next to his and pushed the glass nearer to him with two paracetamol tablets and trickled my fingers through his scruffy hair playfully. Here he is seen comforted by stablemates while the cut above his left eye trickles blood from jostling with the crowd. For some reason, which no one can prove to my knowledge, when black powder is trickled into the cartridge case through a drop tube it burns more cleanly. Gas emissions and volcanic tremors have been high for months and the volcano has expelled boulders and trickled lava in recent weeks. Slowly, she raised her face to Bran, covered with shallow cuts trickling blood. The keeper was slow to retreat as his opposite number, Scott Howie, cleared, and substitute Jody Banim trickled the ball into the empty net from 45 yards via a deflection off Durkin. Should she just leave him there, trickling blood on the carpet? Her cheeks were covered in tiny scrapes and a larger wound was already trickling a small stream of crimson blood down the middle of her forehead. If I weren't already sweating, I'd be trickling some now. Small amounts of oxygen are trickled through the fermentation tank causing the yeasts to thrive and produce a Chianti almost unrecognisable for its voluptuous concentration of fruit. A cut curved slightly downward on her left cheek, still trickling minute amounts of blood on the sundress. She let out the tiniest bit of pressure and power, sending him shattering out of her mind as his nose trickled blood. She trickled the acid over the body, focusing mostly on his face, and hands, though the packet held enough to dissolve most of the entire body. 1.2 Come or go slowly or gradually. the details began to trickle out Example sentencesExamples His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side. This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground. The life slowly trickled away from Kira as her vision began to darken. On the other hand Kildare were handsomely predictable as the early days of 2003 trickled by. Second and third periods had trickled by after that, maybe not skipping past as quickly as Sociology had, but not passing in a manner so slow that I could complain. As the minutes started to slowly trickle by, Bastian sat in silence and began to wait. Along the way there is a slow but steady trickling stream of septuagenarians, slipping their way down to the round stone tower by the beach. With all of the food eaten, and the time growing late, people began to slowly trickle out of the dining hall, until only a few people were left. Ideas spread, trickling any which direction they can. Christiane, time is obviously of the essence, and you said aid is trickling in slowly. Even with Bishop Belo there to take the mass, the people held back and trickled very slowly into the church. As the clock struck half past five the crowd was slowly trickling in. Two guards took their positions on either side of the door and opened it as the kingdom's residents began to trickle in slowly. Lunch break ends and the men slowly trickle back into the room. As we trickle day by day through the end of October and move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties. He put on his basketball uniform and began to loosen his muscles while his teammates slowly trickled in and follow suit. And I really went week after week, month after month, before the details of what was going on in that family slowly began to trickle out. They almost added another a minute later when a pull by Jarlath Sweeney trickled inches wide of the upright. They literally shook the ground in which we were standing here, quite loud explosions, and it sounded a long way away from the information that slowly now is trickling to us. National council decisions aren't usually publicised to members, so this information is only trickling out to members slowly. nounˈtrik(ə)lˈtrɪk(ə)l 1A small flow of liquid. a trickle of blood Example sentencesExamples There was a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. He felt the warm trickle of blood dripping from the wound. A small trickle of blood wound its way along his palm, emanating from a fine slice in his skin that was deep enough to have been caused by a razor. A small trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth down his chin. Her eyes widened as Jesse stood there, small trickles of blood dripping from his clenched hands. Combined with ice cubes and a little bit of essence, the trickles of liquid from crushed melons go on to become a sweet delicacy. His arms were covered in small trickles of blood that flowed from the many burns on his body. Thin trickles of water slowly ran down the sheet of glass. The trickle of blood flowed from his nose ever so much more slowly. The beast shifted; a trickle of blood flowed anew, tracing patterns on the hide. I stand at the counter while the barista lowers the handle on the powerful espresso machine, watching the thin trickle of aromatic liquid. His eyes were glazed with pain, and a thin trickle of blood flowed out of his mouth and down his chin. A faint smile stretched her cracked lips; a trickle of blood suddenly flowed over her parched lips. A warm trickle began to flow down his leg, either blood or urine. Several small trickles of blood flow down the side of his neck. In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle. She noticed, trailing from the corner of the frozen grimace of his mouth, a trickle of mealy yellow liquid that was drying into a crust on his cheek. I gasped loudly as I felt the warm trickle of blood flowing from my back. I collapsed behind a car cradling my head, feeling fresh trickles of blood flow down my face. But it wasn't enough control to stop the trickle of cream-laden coffee from splashing down the front of my shirt. Synonyms dribble, drip, thin stream, rivulet, runnel 1.1 A small group or number of people or things moving slowly. the traffic had dwindled to a trickle Example sentencesExamples For years, all was quiet as the Western frontier was slowly settled by a trickle of pioneers. Synthesised melodies swell from ambient trickles into great, lush waves and splash over crisp breakbeats. In the past two years, the supply of clergy coming out of Canadian seminaries has dwindled to a trickle. Feelings flow in little trickles, slow but steady. Overnight, the torrent of East German refugees drops to a trickle. The airport ran until the 1980s - the traffic slowly coming down to a trickle. It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle. She imagined it encompassing her entire body, and as she did, she felt a familiar trickle of power slowly begin to manifest itself across the surface of her skin. Bit by bit, the trickle of fear was becoming stronger and stronger in Maya's heart. But even in the best of times, the emerging markets end up bidding for no more than a trickle of global capital flows. Radio space slowly trickles out as the Federal Communications Commission frees more of the spectrum for real-world uses. Other teams slowly followed - more of a trickle than a wave. This small trickle of people slowly grew and at the moment there are 11 local women taking part and their numbers continue to grow. In the last half-a-year, the number of visitors here has almost doubled while the ‘take’ has dropped to a trickle. Fresh new buying migrates in slowly, a trickle at first that may grow into a deluge many years later. Since news from the war seems to have dwindled to a trickle, it is an interesting way of keeping track of our troops - and a very personal one too. With rental income dwindling to a mere trickle on many estates in 1880-81, signs of alarm in the Big House were not hard to find. Otherwise, immigration from Bulgaria during these years had dwindled to a trickle. People were entering in a steady trickle, some of them touching the high stone threshold with their right hands, and raising their hands to their heads. We're taking trickles and bits from what the police tell us. Phrasal Verbs trickle down (of wealth) gradually benefit the poorest as a result of the increasing wealth of the richest. Example sentencesExamples I'm just hoping that performance and cost benefits will trickle down to the consumer more readily. No longer applicable, then, is the old theory of material benefits trickling down to the poor as the economy flies. There is also some debate regarding the benefits of the reforms trickling down to the lowest strata of Indian society. The widening gap between rich and poor didn't matter because wealth trickled down. In many cases, there is little trickle down benefit to the wider population in these countries. Anything which trickles down wealth from board room to the worker must be applauded, as indeed must any scheme which encourages prudent investing and enables people to save tax. The trickle down benefits for Scotland's professional and financial services infrastructure has been huge. In other words, if the rich do well, the benefits will trickle down to the rest. There is no such thing in this country or this world as trickle down wealth. As we've learned in the last twenty years, wealth may not trickle down very often. Origin Middle English (as a verb): imitative. verb.1 phr.v.
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