A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
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 .
6 Something hanging from his mouth spilled driblets of blood to the floor.
7 The water was treasured like gold and served out in driblets .
8 Wayland poured the last very driblets of water sediments from the skin bag.
9 It is these little driblets , distributed among too many, that do the harm.
10 That illustrates perfectly Grim's way of letting out information in driblets .
11 The men did not come in a body but by driblets .
12 And if raised in driblets , on what will it be spent?
13 It has never paid yet to take life in driblets .
14 To dole out military appropriations in driblets is to invite disaster and ultimate bankruptcy.
15 He releases THB in driblets and is nearly halfway done.
16 But poor driblets of lyrical praise should not be their sole guerdon, I guess.
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