dripping

Example Sentences

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If you’re lucky, not too much of the medicine will wind up dripping down your adorable creature’s chin.

From Slate • May 17, 2026

Every time I passed that corner I thought about it, how this life was dripping away whether we were awake inside it or not.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

The room was uncooled and water was dripping down the walls from a leaky ceiling.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Molasses was always dripping down the sides, like ice cream melting down a cone.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis