Example Sentences

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Since then, many doctors have been dipping into their own pockets to help those in need.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025

Many customers have been dipping into savings and borrowing more, but those options are starting to run out.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Members of the VFW Post 2718 on Long Island, New York, have been dipping into reserves and organizing fundraisers until they can fully reopen their hall.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2021

Other businesses have been dipping their toes into the matrimony-focused sock pool.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018

From his nose he seemed to have been dipping largely into the cup of chocolate somebody had brought to her, and which she had forgotten to drink when she found it, on her first retiring.

From The Rose-Garden Husband by Widdemer, Margaret