trickle
verb (used without object)
to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream.
trickly
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a word derived from
trickle.
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
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 Grace Beaumont
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 A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
