Vocabulary Word
Word: trickle
Definition: flow in drops or in a thin stream; N.
Definition: flow in drops or in a thin stream; N.
Sentences Containing 'trickle'
Unless the reservoir is very high, or the pumps very powerful, the flow on the upper floors is noticeably less than that in the cellar, and in the upper stories of some high building the flow is scarcely more than a feeble trickle.
Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.
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