How to Use trickle in a Sentence
- Water was trickling out of the gutter.
- Tears trickled down her cheeks.
- Donations have been trickling in.
- People trickled into the theater.
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This will give the moisture time to trickle into the earth.
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Andrea Beck,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 July 2023
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Back out in the sunshine, fans have started to trickle in.
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Amy Kaufman,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2024
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The headphones are said to launch as soon as April, with most speakers trickling out through the end of 2024.
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Samuel Axon,
Ars Technica,
22 Nov. 2023
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Little rivulets of piano trickle through the melody, wearing out the paint.
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Pitchfork,
4 Dec. 2023
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As guests trickled out into the evening, chatter in the valet line turned to the turbulent present.
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Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2023
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At the end, a sitting room looked out to a small garden that lulled us with the sounds of rustling palms and trickling water.
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Sarah Souli,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Oct. 2023
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More ballots will trickle in by mail and be counted in the coming days.
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Anchorage Daily News,
7 Apr. 2023
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Drops of sweat trickle down from her temples and fall onto the Greek sentences.
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Han Kang,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2023
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Since Reynolds bought a stake in the club, its finances have improved and fans have trickled back to watch Wrexham play.
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Byprarthana Prakash,
Fortune,
1 Sep. 2023
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Concerns are growing that the protest could trickle down to young conscripts as well.
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Tia Goldenberg,
Anchorage Daily News,
7 Mar. 2023
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But as the athletes pack up their trophies and the last of the fans trickle home, what happens to the stadiums now that the party is over?
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Aryn Baker,
Time,
20 Dec. 2022
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Facts and claims begin to trickle out and are reported as such.
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Trey Yingst,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2023
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In hometowns and villages, waiting for news News of the blue trawler’s capsize trickled out on the morning of June 14.
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Rick Noack,
Washington Post,
24 June 2023
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Those moves were meant to trickle out through markets to cool the real economy.
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Jordyn Holman,
New York Times,
29 Oct. 2023
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But now the water is beginning to trickle, for perhaps the first time in centuries.
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Simeon Tegel,
Anchorage Daily News,
14 Dec. 2022
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But money from the legislation is only trickling out when time is of the essence.
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James Rogan,
Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2024
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But that windfall did not trickle down the way many of its creators expected.
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Francine Uenuma,
Washington Post,
4 Sep. 2023
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Now that the film has been released in Japan, however, the premise will probably start trickling out.
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Jay Peters,
The Verge,
14 July 2023
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Details of the allegations have been trickling out in court.
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Karla Adam,
Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2023
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Aid trucks are trickling in from the Rafah crossing but are not bringing in nearly enough water.
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Daniel Wolfe,
Washington Post,
3 Nov. 2023
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Even as rain began to trickle, then pour from the sky, the veterans carried out their duties.
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John Hilliard,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 Sep. 2023
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The ball trickled out of bounds, three whistles blew and Juan Guerra walked toward midfield for a handshake.
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The Arizona Republic,
6 Apr. 2023
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And at about 4 o’clock the artists would start to trickle in, and then everyone would be invited — even me — to go to Max’s Kansas City and hang out and talk about art.
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Max Lakin,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2023
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Stop by the Bog Garden, where a trio of 600-year-old yew trees sits alongside a gently trickling waterfall.
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Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2023
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Zach Parise’s first with the franchise came with 26.3 seconds left in the first on a shot that hit Carolina goalie Pyotr Kochetkov and trickled across the goal line.
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Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
8 Feb. 2024
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All but 90 of the most vulnerable people were told to leave May 1, but people had been trickling out onto the streets and greenbelts of the city for weeks.
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Michelle Theriault Boots,
Anchorage Daily News,
16 May 2023
- The flow of water slowed to a trickle.
- We heard the trickle of water from the roof.
- Sales have slowed to a trickle in recent weeks.
- A slow trickle of customers came into the store throughout the day.
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The trucks slowed to a trickle once the fighting resumed.
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Jeremy White,
New York Times,
5 Dec. 2023
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On Friday, posts and videos on the protests were down to a trickle.
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David S. Cloud,
WSJ,
23 Sep. 2022
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Sweat trickles down my neck, and my heart rate edges north of zone 2.
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Peter Flax,
Men's Health,
15 Feb. 2023
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Beneath a leafy canopy, a thin trickle spills down a rock face and flows through the sand.
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Roger Naylor,
The Arizona Republic,
13 Jan. 2023
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The loss of the main attraction means tourism on the weekdays has slowed to a trickle.
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Jason Horowitz,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2023
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After alerts were posted in mid-May, the cases slowed to a trickle by the end of the month.
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Beth Mole,
Ars Technica,
28 Sep. 2022
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Meanwhile, the rocket fire from Gaza slowed to a trickle.
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Michael J. Armstrong,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2023
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And then, for the next few minutes, the two prepare together as the rest of the team trickles onto the ice.
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Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2024
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In the years since, a slow trickle of MAX news has served as mileposts in my career.
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USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2024
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In some of those races, ballots are coming in at a trickle.
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Kathleen Ronayne,
ajc,
17 Nov. 2022
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But last year, as drought seized much of the state, the springs slowed to a trickle, and then stopped flowing completely.
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Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2023
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As the steel mills closed, the city’s population dwindled and by the mid-1980s, the flow of college prospects slowed to a trickle.
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Billy Witz,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2024
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All that dried up as Netflix went global and the show aged, and the residuals slowed to a trickle.
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Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
12 July 2023
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And then the rain began, at first just a trickle, but soon a drenching downpour.
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Sally H. Jacobs,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Aug. 2023
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On Sunday morning, a trickle of people wove in and out of the rows of garments.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2023
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But in 2023, the flow of money to climate tech companies is more a trickle than a flood.
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Rachyl Jones,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2023
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But that pipeline of new shows is already slowing to a trickle.
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Chris Isidore,
CNN,
13 July 2023
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Heading into 2023 however, all the pieces are in place to make the trickle into a flood.
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Kevin O'Marah,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2022
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Trade between Russia and North Korea slowed to a trickle when Kim shut the borders at the start of the pandemic.
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Jon Herskovitz Bloomberg News,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Dec. 2023
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Rainwater trickles off the roof and softly down the wood like a light shower in a rain forest, Rice said.
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David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
17 Feb. 2024
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But this weekend’s rain will be little more than a trickle compared to last month.
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Andrew J. Campastaff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2023
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But if the studios are unable to resolve the strikes soon, their streaming pipeline will slow to a trickle.
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Nina Metz,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2023
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But in recent years, Disney’s copyright suits have slowed to a trickle.
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Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
22 Dec. 2023
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And just like having a say in who makes up our government, equal pay trickles down to all aspects of our lives.
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Lizz Schumer,
Good Housekeeping,
21 June 2023
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What happened in Tuesday’s midterms was closer to a trickle.
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Karl Rove,
WSJ,
9 Nov. 2022
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And in his lifetime, he’s seen this once mighty river reduced to a trickle of its former self.
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Chris Klimek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Aug. 2023
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