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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dribble .
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Examples
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Cold wind lashed my face; cold rain dribbled down my back.
First lines ewillett 2008
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Martin dribbled up so fast that the ball girl who was mopping the court on that end had to scurry away and avoid getting hit.
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With the shot clock winding down, Crispin dribbled between defenders Andre Hutson and Charlie Bell and converted an off-balance 3-pointer with 22 seconds left to increase the lead to 63-59.
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I shouldn't have even dribbled from the beginning.
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I found McNair in No-Man's-Land, with an arm blown off and gasping for breath; I dug him out from beneath a pile of dead bodies, between trenches, saturated with their blood and his own, which dribbled from the stub of his leg.
Aleta Dey 1919
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Well, we didn't really get much fleshing out, lots of talk about technology and then it kind of dribbled into nothing.
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I made the save and the rebound kind of dribbled to my right.
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Well, I’ve had a fine time here with you folks, but it looks like there’s a regular commenting orgy with ol’ Cross Country Heat’s name dribbled all over it in semen.
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Considering that, try to have fixed angles, it's sometimes annoying when the focus is on the ball being dribbled, which makes the view also to be "dribbled".
The NLSC News Feed 2010
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Well, I wasn't doing anything else that needed all of my attention, but I think I kind of dribbled in.
unknown title 2009
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