Example Sentences

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The tiny pine tortoise scale, flocking by the millions on a single plant, sucks the trees’ lifeblood and coats its leaves and bark in a trickly honeydew.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021

We'll make shift to trickly 'way down so far as the gate; for I'd be main vexed if anybody that had known me in life should see us creep in.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I hate crying, I do indeed," she said, scrubbing her cheeks viciously at every fresh outburst; "but the nasty little trickly drops will come.

From Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life by Beaumont, Grace

Come, ladies, out, O come, come quickly, And see about how trim they dance and trickly: Hey! there again: hark! how the bells they shake it!

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)