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How to use drip in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Drip means to fall one drop at a time. Example: “Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!”

Examples of drip by meaning

verbTo fall one drop at a time.

  • Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!

verbTo leak slowly.

  • Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?

verbTo let fall in drops.

  • After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
  • My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.

verbTo have a superabundance of (something).

  • The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
  • The duchess was dripping with jewels.
  • Although Yultes' face was the perfect mask of neutrality, his tone dripped with contempt.2017, Claudie Arseneault, City of Strife, →ISBN

verbTo rain lightly; to drizzle.

  • The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.

verbTo whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

  • So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

verbBe impressive or attractive.

  • I'm sorry for drippin', but drip is what I do.2020, “Drip Like Me”, performed by Kenndog

nounA drop of a liquid.

  • I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  • I need a bucket to catch the drips.

More sentences with drip

  • Water dripped onto the tarpaulin with a drummy sound.From the entry drummy
  • The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.From the entry leaky
  • Hydrogen-7 has so many excess neutrons that it lies beyond the neutron drip line, and will spit out neutrons until it becomes a particle-bound isotope.From the entry drip line
  • Dye splashes and drips may occur, so protect surfaces and be prepared to clean countertops.2026, Katherine Augustine, “Dyeing in the Baking Aisle”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 33. From the entry handy
  • But the bigger issue, she said, will be how they manage a drip feed in supply.2020 November 21, Mark Hilliard, “Health officials working on strategy to overcome vaccine scepticism”, in The Irish Times. From the entry anti-vaxxer
  • All ingredients are easily produced and would thrive with good drip irrigation.2018 February 27, Ron Lockley, quotee, Minutes of the Ordinary Council Meeting, Katanning: Shire Council, page 9. From the entry Ravensthorpe radish
  • And you can bling them up with accessories, covers, different tanks, hand-crafted drip tips and so on.2017 August 20, Simon Waters, “How I quit smoking and is vaping something you should try?”, in New Zealand Herald. From the entry drip tip
  • Something dripped down my upper lip and into my mouth as a metallic taste hit my tongue.2016 04, Noa Gavin, Nick Scott, Practical Applications for Multiverse Theory: A Novel, Inkshares, →ISBN. From the entry crispito
  • I even shower with my pen, in case any ideas drip out of the waterhead.2014, Sherree A. Felstead, Passion to Paper, page 33. From the entry waterhead
  • At times Benedick and Beatrice's verbal sparrings drip with an acidity that smarts.2010, Kenneth Tucker, Shakespeare and Jungian Typology: A Reading of the Plays, page 48. From the entry sparring
  • That every neighborhood should have a great lady, if from the author, drips with a sardonic tone.2010, Arthur M. Axelrad, “Text and Commentary”, in Jane Austen’s Sanditon: A Village by the Sea, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, chapter 3, page 144. From the entry Sanditonian
  • I drip my tears onto the hill and help the grass to grow.2008, Evan Kuhlman, “Cemetery Tales III”, in The Last Invisible Boy, New York, N.Y.: ginee seo books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers…. From the entry saddies
  • Sweat from his hair drips just above my upper lip, he wears a fruity hair mouse.2007, Miah Arnold, “Snap”, in Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, editors, Painted Bride Quarterly: Printed Annual 4, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 291. From the entry sweetheartedly
  • The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes.2003, J. Flash, An American Savage. From the entry slither
  • The characteristic qualities of Iga ware are scorching (koge), glaze drips, and reddish tints.2002, Ryōji Kuroda, Takeshi Murayama, Classic Stoneware of Japan: Shino and Oribe, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry Iga ware
  • Especially beautiful is the effect created by cascading drips of natural glaze.2002, Ryōji Kuroda, Takeshi Murayama, Classic Stoneware of Japan: Shino and Oribe, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry Iga ware
  • An unslurped orange slushy dripped from the ceiling of his car.2002, Heath Eckstine, Larkins' Circles, page 235. From the entry unslurped
  • The fat drips down onto the charcoal and orange flames dance up in the soft evening light.1996, Sophia Creswell, chapter 20, in Sam Golod, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry shashlik
  • Sand out brush strokes and drips between coats, but don't sand to degloss.1995, Old-House Journal, volume 23, number 1, page 57. From the entry degloss
  • And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips.1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman). From the entry bonk
  • IV is time taped and within 15 cc of on time (except with titrated drips) .1980, Amy Morrison Karch, Concurrent Nursing Audit, page 124. From the entry time tape
  • He adjusted salads with his thumb and wiped away drips of gravy with his apronskirt.1979, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 4, in Suttree, New York: Vintage, published 1992, page 70. From the entry apron skirt
  • He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.1971, Bernard Malamud, The Tenants. From the entry Litvak
  • Where the headquarters tent sags, water drips down and spatters on the table.1956, Langston Hughes, chapter 8, in I Wonder as I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 374. From the entry spatter
  • A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pigmeat into the invisible flames.1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies. From the entry pigmeat
  • A cafe royale set, also in copper, has a drip pot and brass tray.1953 April 19–25, “It’s New to Us”, in Donald C. Stuart Jr., Dan D. Coyle, editors, Town Topics, volume VIII, number 6, Princeton, N.J.…. From the entry cafe royale
  • Presently the back of the creature was exposed, brown and glossy as the water dripped from it.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry plesiosaur
  • Blood dripped from every finger-end, while the nails were broken to the quick.1904, Jack London, chapter 39, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry to the quick

Meaning of drip

  1. verb To fall one drop at a time.
  2. verb To leak slowly.
  3. verb To let fall in drops.

Full definition of drip

Questions about drip in a sentence

How do you use drip in a sentence?
Drip is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!”
What is a short sentence with drip?
“The duchess was dripping with jewels.”
What does drip mean?
Drip means to fall one drop at a time.

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