How to Use drippy in a Sentence
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The roast beef is buttery, the sauce is drippy, the buns are chewy, and the fried onions are crispy.
—Robin Miller, azcentral, 31 July 2019
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Silpats are easy to clean — just the thing for drippy cheese melts and Parmesan crisps.
—Jean Kressy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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The track started with the same muffled and drippy R.&B. melody, not unlike a porn score.
—Zachary Jason, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
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April showers are here, but that doesn't mean drippy messes have to be.
—Good Housekeeping, 28 Jan. 2011
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But for the next few days, cool, cloudy and perhaps drippy weather is in store for much of San Diego County.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
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Think Pollock whose work at the same time looks arbitrary and drippy, if not leaky.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
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Afternoon highs reach near 40, leaving things a bit drippy as the late-day sun tries to peek out as well.
—Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
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Here’s something you don’t get asked often — are your acorns drippy?
—Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
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The music is drippy and constant, the wobble from comedy to drama feels off, and the dialects have been reamed in the Irish press.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2020
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Some of the pictures overlay figures rendered with black lines atop fields of soft, drippy daubs in a rainbow of hues.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
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Robust and filling, as well as drippy, juicy, crunchy and herbaceous, these aren’t for the faint of heart or for people wearing crisp white shirts.
—Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
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Its no-drip valve and bottle that is squeezable even with one hand puts those slippery, drippy dish liquids to shame.
—Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
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Not just selfish love, not sentimental, drippy stuff, but love with a purpose to change the world.
—Megan Friedman, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 May 2018
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The Double-up Smash Burger is cheesy, smoky, drippy, briny from pickles, salty from bacon, creamy from mayo.
—Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
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True Sons solved that problem by putting their dye in a foam, which makes applying it more like shaving cream than a goopy, drippy mess.
—Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 11 July 2023
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For starters, the lack of a well means that drippier items, like melons, tomatoes, or a whole roasted chicken, will leave a leaky residue on countertops.
—Kat Thompson, Bon Appétit, 31 Oct. 2023
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The trio combined for 345 rushing yards and six touchdowns on a drippy late-October night that was tailor-made for Wauconda to churn out yards on the ground.
—Steve Reaven, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2021
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A special soybean-root enzyme gives it the texture and drippy quality of a good burger, but without beef.
—Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 21 Aug. 2017
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Forgetting to add in a new filter after cleaning out the old one can turn into a drippy disaster.
—Chris Hachey, BGR, 10 May 2021
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The drippy aesthetic in her images is a direct result of Bernhardt’s painting process.
—Carolyn Twersky, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018
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The worst of the bunch are drippy, odd colored or cloying, due to added sugar or too much apple concentrate, the most popular sweetener.
—Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2019
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In the cart, keep raw meat, poultry, and seafood away from the rest of your items since the packaging might leak and contaminate your other food, even when the packaging isn’t visibly drippy.
—Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2019
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Frames around the windows and entryways on the parlor floor have a line of abstract petal shapes that fan upward like flames or the drippy ornamentation on the gates and roofs of Hindu temples.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 July 2023
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Tom’s also has a spicy burger, and one bite into the medium patty — Tom’s does medium closer to medium rare — brought a pleasing, drippy juiciness.
—Robert Philpot bud Kennedy jason Hoskins, star-telegram, 4 Oct. 2017
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Often what starts the sensation of a scratchy throat or a drippy nose is the arsenal of molecules that the immune system makes to combat an invading pathogen rather than the pathogen itself.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
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The drippy console table by designer Zhipeng Tan is available online at 1stdibs.
—Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 18 Dec. 2018
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Since Opendoor, Offerpad and Zillow spiff up the houses themselves before putting them back on the market, sellers don’t need to fix drippy faucets or try to appeal to buyers’ tastes.
—Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 19 June 2019
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Focusing on the silhouettes and surfaces, Atwood emphasized contrasts such as that between the short and round Gomez in stripes and the tall and lithe Morticia in drippy, fluid sleeves and hems.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
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For me, shikanji symbolizes summer more than a drippy popsicle or an ice cream cone or a slice of sweet watermelon.
—Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2018
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Mtsvadi, hunks of pork grilled over grapevines until crackling and drippy, are a specialty at Nikala, a no-frills roadside restaurant in Vardisubani next to Chateau Mere wine hotel.
—Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2018
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