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Example sentences for "driblet"

Lexicographically close words:
dribble; dribbled; dribbles; dribbling; dribe; driblets; drie; dried; drier; driers
  1. I sha'n't care if they don't have a driblet of gravy at supper tonight.

  2. I could sell the house in a week, for it's always full and there are always lone women like me with a little driblet of money to exchange for a boarding house--heaven help us for the fools we are!

  3. But it is a bad sign when our chosen associates are chosen for every other reason but their religion, and when our talk flows copiously on all other subjects, and becomes a constrained driblet when religion comes to be spoken of.

  4. But when the mist lifts, and we see that the narrow strait leads out into a boundless sea that lies flashing in the sunshine to the horizon, then we find out the worth of that little driblet of water at our feet.

  5. From time to time the surface freezes over, then cracks open and erupt at favored points along the fissures, sending up jets and fountains of lava, the material of which falls in pasty fragments that build up driblet cones.

  6. They were a driblet of two hundred thousand such wretches who overran and menaced the city, a product of the dense illiteracy of the time.

  7. The driblet of population thus strung scantily along the banks of the vast river seemed as nothing in the mighty forest by which it was surrounded.

  8. There are thus built up curious cones known as driblet cones, in which the separate drops covering the sides of the cone can be distinctly traced.

  9. These deep gorges occur, I believe, for the most part in limestone strata; and the effects which the merest driblet of water can produce on such rocks are quite astonishing.

  10. It was this slight overflow which supplied the driblet we had followed up from the caƱon below.

  11. I thought you said there was a driblet of water running out at the crevice," remarked Tom.

  12. From the extremity of the Jardin itself a mere driblet of a moraine proceeds, running parallel to the former, and like it disappearing at the summit of the cascade.


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