How to Use trickle in a Sentence

trickle

1 of 2 verb

• Water was trickling out of the gutter.
• Tears trickled down her cheeks.
• Donations have been trickling in.
• People trickled into the theater.
• This will give the moisture time to trickle into the earth.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 July 2023
• Back out in the sunshine, fans have started to trickle in.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• The headphones are said to launch as soon as April, with most speakers trickling out through the end of 2024.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Little rivulets of piano trickle through the melody, wearing out the paint.
  — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
• As guests trickled out into the evening, chatter in the valet line turned to the turbulent present.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• At the end, a sitting room looked out to a small garden that lulled us with the sounds of rustling palms and trickling water.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• More ballots will trickle in by mail and be counted in the coming days.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Drops of sweat trickle down from her temples and fall onto the Greek sentences.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Since Reynolds bought a stake in the club, its finances have improved and fans have trickled back to watch Wrexham play.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Concerns are growing that the protest could trickle down to young conscripts as well.
  — Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
• But as the athletes pack up their trophies and the last of the fans trickle home, what happens to the stadiums now that the party is over?
  — Aryn Baker, Time, 20 Dec. 2022
• Facts and claims begin to trickle out and are reported as such.
  — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• In hometowns and villages, waiting for news News of the blue trawler’s capsize trickled out on the morning of June 14.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• Those moves were meant to trickle out through markets to cool the real economy.
  — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• But now the water is beginning to trickle, for perhaps the first time in centuries.
  — Simeon Tegel, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
• But money from the legislation is only trickling out when time is of the essence.
  — James Rogan, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
• But that windfall did not trickle down the way many of its creators expected.
  — Francine Uenuma, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
• Now that the film has been released in Japan, however, the premise will probably start trickling out.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 14 July 2023
• Details of the allegations have been trickling out in court.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• Aid trucks are trickling in from the Rafah crossing but are not bringing in nearly enough water.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• Even as rain began to trickle, then pour from the sky, the veterans carried out their duties.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• The ball trickled out of bounds, three whistles blew and Juan Guerra walked toward midfield for a handshake.
  — The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
• And at about 4 o’clock the artists would start to trickle in, and then everyone would be invited — even me — to go to Max’s Kansas City and hang out and talk about art.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Stop by the Bog Garden, where a trio of 600-year-old yew trees sits alongside a gently trickling waterfall.
  — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
• Trucks already packed sit idle on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing but trickle through at a fraction of prewar levels.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• So when the weight-loss imitations started to trickle in last year, his team sprung into action.
  — Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024

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trickle

2 of 2 noun

• The flow of water slowed to a trickle.
• We heard the trickle of water from the roof.
• Sales have slowed to a trickle in recent weeks.
• A slow trickle of customers came into the store throughout the day.
• The trucks slowed to a trickle once the fighting resumed.
  — Jeremy White, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• On Friday, posts and videos on the protests were down to a trickle.
  — David S. Cloud, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• Sweat trickles down my neck, and my heart rate edges north of zone 2.
  — Peter Flax, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Beneath a leafy canopy, a thin trickle spills down a rock face and flows through the sand.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
• The loss of the main attraction means tourism on the weekdays has slowed to a trickle.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• After alerts were posted in mid-May, the cases slowed to a trickle by the end of the month.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2022
• Meanwhile, the rocket fire from Gaza slowed to a trickle.
  — Michael J. Armstrong, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• And then, for the next few minutes, the two prepare together as the rest of the team trickles onto the ice.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
• In the years since, a slow trickle of MAX news has served as mileposts in my career.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• In some of those races, ballots are coming in at a trickle.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
• But last year, as drought seized much of the state, the springs slowed to a trickle, and then stopped flowing completely.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• As the steel mills closed, the city’s population dwindled and by the mid-1980s, the flow of college prospects slowed to a trickle.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• All that dried up as Netflix went global and the show aged, and the residuals slowed to a trickle.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• And then the rain began, at first just a trickle, but soon a drenching downpour.
  — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• On Sunday morning, a trickle of people wove in and out of the rows of garments.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
• But in 2023, the flow of money to climate tech companies is more a trickle than a flood.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• But that pipeline of new shows is already slowing to a trickle.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 13 July 2023
• Heading into 2023 however, all the pieces are in place to make the trickle into a flood.
  — Kevin O'Marah, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Trade between Russia and North Korea slowed to a trickle when Kim shut the borders at the start of the pandemic.
  — Jon Herskovitz Bloomberg News, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2023
• Rainwater trickles off the roof and softly down the wood like a light shower in a rain forest, Rice said.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024
• But this weekend’s rain will be little more than a trickle compared to last month.
  — Andrew J. Campastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• But if the studios are unable to resolve the strikes soon, their streaming pipeline will slow to a trickle.
  — Nina Metz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• But in recent years, Disney’s copyright suits have slowed to a trickle.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
• And just like having a say in who makes up our government, equal pay trickles down to all aspects of our lives.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2023
• The film was the catalyst for a slow trickle of tourism, which still comes in gentle waves rather than overwhelming surges.
  — Rachel Howard, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2024
• Will the streaming spigot slow to a trickle, forcing auteurs to find new homes for their pricey passion projects?
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024