How to use dripping in a sentence

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• Water was dripping from the ceiling, so we figured there was a problem with the plumbing.From the entry plumbing
• I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.From the entry pore
• The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.From the entry drip
• The fontinal cliff vegetation occupies moist rocky banks, damp ledges, and dripping rocks.From the entry fontinal
• The duchess was dripping with jewels.From the entry drip
• Then unrolled his wet trouser pants, water dripping down his ankles, heat pinkening his skin.2025, Hannah Linder, The Red Cottage, Barbour Publishing, Incorporated. From the entry pinken
• Thankfully, Stilts was dripping profusely and looked for all money like he was about to faint.2024 November 28, Peter Dickson, The Embedded Lie, BookLocker.com, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry for all money
• "However, I do enjoy the flavor of red-eye gravy made with ham drippings."2021 August 2, Highlander, One Wore Gray One Wore Blue: An Appalachian Grandmother’s Favorite Generals, Archway Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry red-eye gravy
• It was turned on, illuminated, beads of oil dripping down around a reasonable copy of Athena Parthenos.2017, Jarett Kobek, The Future Won't Be Long. From the entry rain lamp
• He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN. From the entry eat
• When wet sanding, use a wet (not dripping) sponge to smooth out taped areas.2012, Myron R. Ferguson, Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry wet sand
• Viciously massaging conditioner through her dripping hair, Paula lets the footage play to the cringeful end.2011, Cath Kenneally, Jetty Road, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry cringeful
• Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.2007, Barton Palmer, Twentieth Century American Fiction on Screen. From the entry sprinkly
• "I luh you, Carmiesha," I said, slobber dripping from my mouth.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 285. From the entry luh
• “I call these the lungs,” says Colleton, pointing to the gills with the dripping, short-handled knife.2003 September 26, Michael Gartland, “Drought Forces Awendaw, S.C., Crab Festival to Import from Louisiana”, in Knight Ridder Tribune…. From the entry dead men
• No, not a pink-faced, dripping sweat; nevertheless, a little dewy under the arms and around your forehead.2001, Karon Karter, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Pilates Method, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry break a sweat
• One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen.1994, Lee Boyd, Katherine Albro Houpt, Przewalski's Horse: The History and Biology of an Endangered Species, page 246. From the entry flehmen
• Tears ran down my cheeks dripping into a glass of cold schav with sour cream.1984, Sarah Schulman, The Sophie Horowitz Story. From the entry schav
• His clothes were dripping wet and his shoes squished with every step.1957, Harvey Weiss, A Gondola for Fun, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC. From the entry squish
• Serve piping hot with gravy made from the pan drippings, or chill and serve cold.1942, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics, Foods and Nutrition Division, Meat for Thrifty Meals. From the entry piping hot
• The heavy udders of hefted cows trailed on the ground, dripping milk on the greensward.1922, Patrick MacGill, “The Inaugural Dinner”, in Lanty Hanlon: A Comedy of Irish Life, Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland: Brandon Book…. From the entry heft
• The mystery of the dripping lubricators was also explained to him.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry lubricator
• I lifted the blade and tested the sharpness before dripping more water on the stone and repeating the motions.2023 April 18, Shannon Pemrick, Valkyrie Renewed, Shannon Pemrick, →ISBN. From the entry shink
• Then he moved his tongue down to her dripping box and began to tongue punch her hole with everything he had.2018, wyldsidz, One Wylde Ride: The Road to Ecstasy & Love. From the entry tongue punch
• DJ sets so lit the dance floor's dripping with sweat?2017 November, Justin Allec, Adrian Lysenko, Kirsti Salmi, “Sounds of the City: Part VI”, in The Walleye, page 8. From the entry lit
• The ghostly light hover in one spot, growing brighter absorbing the fear that is dripping like sweat over Richard's face.2014, Mark Richard Luther, Richard Tarbox, page 30. From the entry squink
• Halloran held up a strip of dripping orangeblossom paper.2014, Kathleen Winter, “The Christmas Room”, in John Metcalf, editor, The Freedom in American Songs: Stories, Windsor, Ont.: Biblioasis…. From the entry orangeblossom
• Roofers stomped around up on the roof and down below huge buckets lined the hallways to catch the dripping water.2011, John Salmon, PHD, Family By God's Design: A Celebrating Community of Honor and Grace, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 147. From the entry cats and dogs
• Moving very slowly, taking extremely ginger steps, the woman felt beads of sweat dripping down from her body.2009, Franklin Newman, The Prophetess of Bromfryel: The Knights of Callistor, page 509. From the entry ginger
• Henry, laughing, spurs away his hunter under the dripping trees.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 480. From the entry hunter
• Dripping with unearned knowingness, indifferent to the factual debate involved.2007 February 4, David Berreby, “No ____ Need Apply”, in New York Times. From the entry knowingness
• Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales. From the entry dumben
• Next place your hair, the rose quartz, some of the orris root powder, and the candle drippings into the box.2000, Lady Sabrina, The Witch′s Master Grimoire, page 122. From the entry orris
• Croyd bought three skewers of shaslik, lamb and peppers and tomatoes, richly spiced, dripping, and grilled almost black.1995, Sage Walker, chapter 7, in George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass, editors, Black Trump: A Wild Card Mosaic…. From the entry shaslik
• Mitch (Precious Pearl) is a smooth, impassive young man utterly dripping with the ambivalent sensuality of a teddy-boy in tap shoes.1991 April 6, Ron Caldwell, “Kind of Stranger”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry teddy boy
• Puftaloons are a type of scone dough fried in plenty of hot dripping or a light vegetable oil.1983, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, published 2009, page 484. From the entry puftaloon
• They carried the dripping scalps of his companions, and one had skinned off Baptiste's black beard as well, for a trophy.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 171. From the entry scalp

Meaning of dripping

1. noun Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
2. noun The sound or action of something that drips.
3. noun The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.

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Questions about dripping in a sentence

How do you use dripping in a sentence?

Dripping is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.”

What is a short sentence with dripping?

“The duchess was dripping with jewels.”

What does dripping mean?

Dripping means solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.