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Meanings of driblet in inglés

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A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)

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        Usage of driblet in inglés
        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.
        The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
        2
        She tied the ships to harbour by supplying the stores in driblets.
        Sea-Power and Other Studies
        3
        But they came in by driblets, and most of them were drunk.
        The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
        4
        The electors will better stand a crushing blow than coercion by driblets.
        The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
        5
        I suppose you prefer theft on a small scale, stealing by driblets.
        File No. 113
        6
        Something hanging from his mouth spilled driblets of blood to the floor.
        The strain
        7
        The water was treasured like gold and served out in driblets.
        From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
        8
        Wayland poured the last very driblets of water sediments from the skin bag.
        The Freebooters of the Wilderness
        9
        It is these little driblets, distributed among too many, that do the harm.
        Howards End
        10
        That illustrates perfectly Grim's way of letting out information in driblets.
        The Lion of Petra
        11
        The men did not come in a body but by driblets.
        "Contemptible", by "Casualty"
        12
        And if raised in driblets, on what will it be spent?
        Against Home Rule (1912) / The Case for the Union
        13
        It has never paid yet to take life in driblets.
        The Vultures
        14
        To dole out military appropriations in driblets is to invite disaster and ultimate bankruptcy.
        Forty-Six Years in the Army
        15
        He releases THB in driblets and is nearly halfway done.
        Wired
        16
        But poor driblets of lyrical praise should not be their sole guerdon, I guess.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for driblet
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        Driblet through the time