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Example sentences for "dripped"

Lexicographically close words:
drinkin; drinking; drinkings; drinks; drip; dripping; drippings; drips; dripstone; dritte
  1. At the sound of the opening door, she lifted her head, and tears dripped upon the paper.

  2. As the two came down the larynx of the Alley, the drizzle had dripped off into a soft mist.

  3. He dripped on the Persian rugs awhile, and, finding neither enlightenment nor consolation in this moist occupation, proceeded to take off his overcoat and hang it on his own nail on the mahogany hat-tree under the stairs.

  4. What though in the early morn the frost had lain in rime as white as snow on the bare branches of the great trees where now the yellow sunshine dripped in liquid light!

  5. And, as he admitted it, his ears rang again with the plaints of his stranded fellow-countryman, a wheedler from the South Country, off whose tongue the familiar brogue had dripped like honey.

  6. It was damp with the sweat that had dripped from Polly's head when the pains were on her.

  7. Writhing, struggling, I could feel the brute's hot breath on my face and his lolling tongue dripped saliva.

  8. The rain dripped ceaselessly upon the dreary earth under a grey November sky,--a dull and lowering sky, that seemed to brood over this lower world with some menace of coming down to blot out and destroy it.

  9. The drizzling rain dripped ceaselessly in the street without, and there was a smell of damp plaster in the great empty church.

  10. The sweat dripped from his face as he bridled and saddled the half-wild animal.

  11. The sweat, which had rolled down his cheeks and dripped from his nose, now seemed to coagulate in tiny, oily globules.

  12. A dark red line streaked the table and dripped to the floor.

  13. Then as we looked we saw that water trickled from her golden hair and that little streams were gathering at her tiny feet, as the water dripped and dripped from her beautiful clothing.

  14. Streams of saliva dripped from his jaws into the snow.

  15. The blood dripped from her belly as she made her way down into the thicker cover, leaving a red trail behind her.

  16. The house was full of flowers; as if it had plunged into seas of them, it dripped with an odourous rosy foam.

  17. It rained, for horses were rubber-blanketed, and umbrellas dripped on me as I passed.

  18. The downpour became so heavy that it dripped through our hastily-constructed arbor, and we were soon soaking wet.

  19. These, ever and anon, made their way inside and extinguished the candles, which flickered and dripped as they fitfully shone on the shrunken features of the corpse.

  20. The man thus adjured turned sharply, and saw close to him a sturdy-looking figure clothed from head to foot in black mackintosh, which glistened as it dripped with the showery spray.

  21. The wound never healed, but dripped with venom, and Philoctetes, in terrible pain, kept all the camp awake at night by his cries.

  22. The Prince’s proud head sank low; the hot tears welled up and blinded him, then dripped down his cheeks as he considered his smirched chivalry.

  23. The wind cast the rain in gouts on the window; it dripped from the leads and splashed down the wide chimney in heavy drops that hissed on the logs.

  24. The ghastly blackness of the ruin glared against the snow-covered hills and the dazzling blue of the sky; here and there a puff of steam showed where the melting snow on the cooler beams dripped on the hot embers below.

  25. She followed Mrs. Davis back to her work, and sat down on a bench, out of the way of a little stream of water which had dripped from the leaking tub, and trickled across the floor.

  26. The perspiration dripped from the back of his neck.

  27. Then suddenly her small hand gripped tightly upon the sponge, so that the water started from it and dripped in a little pattering deluge upon the bricks.

  28. The panes of the single window ran with sheets of water; the eaves dripped incessantly.

  29. In the stillness that succeeded, the water dripped from her hands with the steady tick of a clock.

  30. They ground apart once again, and the water swished and swirled between them, foaming white and flecked with red as the blood of the rowers who had been injured dripped from the galley.

  31. Let this,” cried he in wild accents, and he shivered as the blood dripped from him, “let this be a pledge of the faithfulness of the Desmonds to you and to the cause!

  32. The buckskin hunting coat and leggins were wet, torn and bespattered with mud; the water ran and dripped from him to form little muddy pools on the floor; only his rifle and powder horn were dry.

  33. It dripped from a bandage wound tightly about his arm; it oozed through a hole in his hunting shirt, and it flowed from a wound over his temple.

  34. Cold sweat dripped from his forehead, yet he was hot, burning.

  35. He stood in icy water, but the perspiration dripped from him as he swung with every blow.

  36. There was no room to swing the hammer, and Nasmyth struck half crouching, while, chilly as the heading was, the perspiration dripped from him, and the veins rose swollen on his forehead.

  37. He accordingly pulled straight for the beach before the wind, and the perspiration dripped from his set face as he strove to hold the dinghy straight, when, with the foam boiling white about her, she swung up on the crest of a comber.

  38. The engineer, clothed lightly as he was, fairly dripped with perspiration.

  39. Down in the darkness the water dripped as placidly as pulses beat.

  40. Inside, so as to retain the heat and carry off the water which dripped from the melting dome of snow, there was an interior tent of seal skin.

  41. The blood dripped upon the snow and Ootah's stomach ached.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dripped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.