trickle charger

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noun

a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners

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Words nearby trickle charger

trickery, trickish, trick knee, trickle, trickle charge, trickle charger, trickle-down, trickle-down theory, trickle irrigation, trickle-up, trick or treat

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How to use trickle charger in a sentence

Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, many old Nazis managed discreetly to trickle back to what they regarded as the Fatherland.
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In the meantime, much of the book is already available online, and scholarly criticism has already started to trickle in.
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Months after the president stepped in to save the Yazidis from genocide, the airstrikes have slowed to a trickle.
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A small trickle of donations from friends and family, handled by a church in Indiana, was his main source of funding.
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In days of yore, blood on screen was to be feared: think the trickle of blood signaling defilement in old vampire movies.
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I laved his pain-twisted face with the cool water and let a few drops trickle into his open mouth.
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Malcolm had selected it as a training-ground that evening, because he meant to weary and subdue his too highly spirited charger.
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Before his fierce charge, the enemy gave way; and, Langtoft says, he killed Valence's charger.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
The trickle of water sounded very pleasant to all the children as they lay down once more to drink.
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Beardsley savored the thought tastily, and let it trickle away, and the look of glee on his cherubic face was gone.
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