drip
verb (used without object)
to let drops fall; shed drops.
have dripped
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present perfectof drip.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Even if the house didn’t burn, the paint could have dripped into the soils around the house and contaminated the soil nearest the structure, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
Staff at the gallery were worried the soup may have dripped through the protective glass and destroyed the painting, the court heard.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024
Researchers have dripped solutions of amino acids onto hot surfaces to produce amino acid polymers.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Then he hit on what might be the best explanation: “Could someone have dripped stuff on these boards before they installed them?”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2016
For the moment, it appears to sleep; and the clouds have dripped into the cup of its highest crater till it has become a lake, several hundred yards in circumference.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
