Example Sentences
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Trickling down, it’s the teenager, the budding pitching prospect desperate to land his Division I scholarship, who is hurt the most.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025
Trickling down to congregational level, ecumenism has notably relaxed sociological tension, created a national fad for visits to other people's churches.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Trickling back to work were 119,000 members of 16 unions that had idled the big Canadian Pacific and Canadian National rail roads, as well as five smaller lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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How sweet the music of the purling rill, Trickling adown the grassy hill!
From The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children by Various
Pure is thy reign; when, unaccurs'd by blood, Nought, save the sweetness of indulgent show'rs, Trickling, distils into the vernant glebe; Instead of mangled carcases, sad scene!
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton