driblet
Americannoun
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a small portion or part.
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a small or petty sum.
noun
Etymology
Origin of driblet
Example Sentences
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Compared with Ted Turner's $1 billion pledge to the United Nations, White's largesse is a driblet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last month Ashokan with a 17-billion gal. driblet in it was declared virtually empty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suwon and its airfield were lost and Red flanking drives to the east were under way when the first driblet of U.S. ground troops�two battalions of the 24th Infantry Division�reached the zone of battle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early this year they even managed to ship a driblet of cars into the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
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