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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
trickle .
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Examples
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The moniker did not go over so well with residents, who bombarded local newspapers when news of the acronym trickled out.
Neighborhood Newspeak Sumathi Reddy 2011
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Water trickled from the pools around the artists 'residence, carp splashed and occasionally a kingfisher swooped above the pool.
A message from Lian Hearn the writing of Across the Nightingale Floor 2010
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Adrenalin trickled into his blood, an electric thrill made distant by his growing exhaustion.
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A thin rivulet of blood trickled from a gash in her lip.
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Just because they didn't keep the gutters cleaned out, the rain trickled down and dry-rotted the timbers, and the big stone barn is caved in.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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It was a dreary autumn dawn, and rain trickled down his bedroom window.
Ron Menchine, radio voice of Washington Senators in team's final seasons T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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Clinging the plane with his left hand, pain trickled down his arm and he almost let go.
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The plump fruit burst between his teeth and a little juice trickled from the corner of his mouth and down his chin.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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WASHINGTON The line trickled from the MCI Center box office half a city block down around the corner.
USATODAY.com - Jordan says the expected which is just fine 2001
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The soldiers surrounding him had seemed to know little more than he, but gradually the word trickled back that a small but fanatical band of xenophobes had infiltrated the colony and were killing every thranx in sight as well as any visiting humans who tried to interfere with their bloodthirsty spree.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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