A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
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Examples for "drop "
Examples for "drop "
1 That tinkering saw the support for 'yes' drop to 49 per cent.
2 However, he decided to drop out in 1981 during his second year.
3 For different reasons, both parties are likely to see their vote drop .
4 The fight to pressure the state to drop the case is on.
5 She did, however, drop a hint about a possible new television role.
1 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.
2 She tied the ships to harbour by supplying the stores in driblets .
3 But they came in by driblets , and most of them were drunk.
4 The electors will better stand a crushing blow than coercion by driblets .
5 I suppose you prefer theft on a small scale, stealing by driblets .
1 This little drib of railroad stock is all that my girls have left out of what their father willed them.
2 Dee'll drib d' English into d' sea, and wese t' hab ouh freedom,-ouhfreedom an' plenty lan' t' lib on.
3 The figures have been coming out in dribs and drabs since April.
4 Slowly, in dribs and drabs, James learned the history of Night Quidditch.
5 Well, there were still dribs and drabs coming in throughout January and February.
6 And certainly, some stock is coming through, but seemingly in dribs and drabs.
7 It wasn't right at all, he was not one for dribs and drabs.
8 By dribs and drabs, the casualties were starting to add up.
9 They get dribs and drabs of the funding at irregular intervals.
10 All you've got is a few dribs and drabs of vintage.
11 They trickled over the Rockies in dribs and drabs, in wagons and coaches.
12 Songs of Leonard Cohen will be posted in dribs and drabs on Beck.com.
13 He is also urging the government not to release funding in ' dribs and drabs'.
14 Better to let it out in dribs and drabs, to the people I trust.
15 Other dribs and drabs have slunk out over the years, most of negligible interest.
16 The experts were all convinced we should use barrels by dribs and drabs, too.
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