Example Sentences

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But the concern is that we have a sustained and sticky inflation environment in which businesses are dribbling in price increases.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Residents are dribbling back in, many of them working to rebuild what was lost.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021

In general, U.S. scientists are frustrated with how bits and pieces of often conflicting data are dribbling out in company news releases and studies that have not been peer-reviewed or published in scientific journals.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2021

“Poor Jack’s on camera all the time. I don’t want to be on camera. I’m usually eating and things are dribbling out of my mouth.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2018

Then there’s an ugly French cruiser lying off Groix, yonder, and her black stacks are dribbling smoke all day and all night.

From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)