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• The CEO's benefits are unlikely to trickle down to the factory workers.From the entry trickle down
• There’s a hope, slowly trickling out of certain artists, that AI might help interesting projects get made.2026 May 21, Foster Kamer, “The AI Slopocalypse Is Upon Us. Tastemakers, Assemble.”, in GQ. From the entry slopocalypse
• The shallow slow-running groughs fed the hag with a trickle of coppery water.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101. From the entry hag
• Puss leaked out from beneath white gauze on his back and trickled down his spine.2016 When Crickets Cry page 267. From the entry puss
• Ice water trickled down my eustachian tubes, leaving a cold, bitter taste in my mouth.2016, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor, page 20. From the entry eustachian tube
• Through the thirties, there was just a trickle of income from record sales, or “mechanicals.”2015, Ben Yagoda, The B Side, →ISBN. From the entry mechanicals
• Sweat trickled down his forehead, steaming up his round Harry Potter glasses.2014, Julie Garwood, Fast Track, page 290. From the entry Harry Potter glasses
• The money had trickled in little by little, and he never felt the sacrifice of saving.2013, Raymar Rodriguez, The Little Red Book of Financial Happiness: Life After Prison, page 62. From the entry found money
• She dollops porridge into a bowl and trickles condensed milk over the top.2012, Ruth Saberton, Amber Scott is Starting Over, London: Orion, →ISBN. From the entry dollop
• The truth seems to be revealed over time, a phenomenon well-known as the "trickle truth."2011, Deanna Sims, “Forgiveness”, in What Happens After Shattered?: Finding Hope and Healing after Infidelity, Bloomington, Ind.…. From the entry trickle truth
• The metalled silk seemed to trickle between his fingers, like cool golden rain.2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 134. From the entry porte-épée
• As he regained his senses, he could hear the trickle of water running from the Pot.2001, Philip E. LaMoreaux with Judy T. Tanner, Springs and Bottled Waters of the World, →ISBN, page 166. From the entry drinking water
• She hooked the truck battery up to the trickle charger and left it.1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry trickle charger
• We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors.1982 November 30, Stuart, “Re: New proposal for handling net traffi - (nf)”, in net.news (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID…. From the entry hackish
• To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, year_published edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry down
• It’s nothing to cry about!’ To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry humiliation
• Slowly, slightly, faith is trickling back, at least into Britain.2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry there is something in the water
• The waterfall is now a trickle, and the pool is choked with algae and drowned leaves and broken-off branches.2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 13, in The Garden of Evening Mists, New York: Weinstein Books, page 168. From the entry choke
• There is a “Water Falls” which spills and trickles depending upon the yeartime one visits its huge boulders.2011, Alaya Chadwick, Alaya's Fables: Tales That Transform & Awaken. From the entry yeartime
• Can we go beyond connections in the form of spillover, or in the form of "trickle down and bubble up"?2005, Lene Arnett Jensen, Reed Larson, Reed W. Larson, New horizons in developmental theory and research, page 87. From the entry bubble up
• Water trickles away from gutterings and down spoutings into the big water tank at the back of the house.2003, Russell Stewart, The Dolphin, Canada: Trafford Publishing, page 9. From the entry spouting
• Below in the narrow valley, a gray stream simmered, no more than a trickle of mopwater in summer.1949, Cornell University, Epoch, page 196. From the entry mopwater
• They slipslopped and spilled over, some of their contents trickling back into the room, under the warped edge of the door.1938, Emerson Waldman -, The Land is Large, page 109. From the entry slipslop
• The house was silent save for the wind outside, and the noisy trickling and splattering of water in the water-butts.1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Rainbow, New York: The Modern Library, page 72. From the entry water butt
• And Ralph Vaughan Williams 'is now a solitary figure, for his influence has served to produce a steady trickle of pentatonic wish-wash.2021, Simon Fenwick, The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon. From the entry wish-wash
• I'm glad they weren't wearing a skirt like I was because I didn't want to witness any pee trickles that were happening.2012, Jenny McCarthy, Bad Habits: A Book of Confessions about Confession. From the entry church giggles
• The best times had passed for the notaryship, since the Prussian ancestral estate law had been passed and new mortgages slowed to a trickle.2011, Margarete Limberg, Hubert Rbsaat, Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938, →ISBN. From the entry notaryship
• In our healthy astronaut normal brain traffic is ordinarily so heavy that it swamps completely any weak trickle via the reducing valve.1969, A. E. Wilder-Smith, The drug users: the psychopharmacology of turning on, page 217. From the entry brain traffic
• At first she had been only relieved to find that the voice, whosever it was, trickling over the wire, was not his.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter III, page 303. From the entry whosever
• Ornamental grasses fringed our path, while through the bracken and lichened rocks projectng overhead little bubbling freshets trickled down at our feet.March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 279. From the entry freshets
• He scouched down in the grass and the tears trickled down his cocious nose in a little stream that fell on Mr.1916, Stanton Davis Kirkham, Half-True Stories, page 87. From the entry scouch
• A trickle charger is particularly useful for batteries which have to be kept out of use temporarily or for standby batteries which are used only in emergencies.2003, Sharma, Basic Radio & Television, 2/E, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry trickle charger
• The water that reached the canyon floor was no more than a trickle and they leaned by turns with pursed lips to the stone like devouts at a shrine.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 60. From the entry vadose

Meaning of trickle

1. noun A very thin river.
2. noun A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
3. verb To pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

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How do you use trickle in a sentence?

Trickle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.”

What is a short sentence with trickle?

“The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.”

What does trickle mean?

Trickle means a very thin river.