Example Sentences

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In some cases, moisture will drip down into the heating element, which can smell up your house or even short the wiring and destroy the dehydrator.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2022

Eat it carefully, though, or the butter will drip onto your jacket — as it did on mine.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2018

It will drip from the brass handles that finish a leather-wrapped railing along a glass staircase that glows from the light-emitting diodes embedded into each stair.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018

Water will drip steadily and sound like footsteps walking across a floor.

From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2016

“Because every ninth night, eight gold arm-rings of equal beauty will drip from it. You can reward people with them, or store them, and your wealth will increase.”

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman