Crossword clues for dribbled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dribble \Drib"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dribbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.] [Freq. of drib, which is a variant of drip.]
To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
To fall weakly and slowly. [Obs.] ``The dribbling dart of love.''
--Shak. (Meas. for Meas., i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]In basketball, football and similar games, to dribble[2] the ball.
To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: dribble)
Usage examples of "dribbled".
Light dribbled like water through a hundred sparkling holes in the roof, caught on splinters.
She bit appreciatively into the firm reddish flesh of the fruit and its succulent juices dribbled down her chin on to her tanned breasts.
Nomik's eyes were wild with disbelief and foam dribbled from his mouth.
Another variety of beetlelike creatures specialized in irrigation, trundling water, held in body sacs, which was carefully dribbled along neat rows.
She bit appreciatively into the firm reddish flesh of the fruit and its succulent juices dribbled down her chin onto her tanned breasts.
Then, taking a spoon - the bowl of this utensil was deep enough to hold a respectable quantity of liquid and the rim smoothly polished - she dribbled water onto his lips.
Sweet juices dribbled from the corners of her mouth, and Lessa hurriedly licked her lips to capture the least drop of the delicious liquid.
There was blood on his cheek, from a slice he had not even felt—not until the wet heat dribbled from his chin and the sting of the cut ran from his eye to the corner of his mouth.
Reciting more Welsh and Latin prayers, I placed a love-lies-bleeding flower upon each blade, and dribbled wine over them.
More black flames dribbled from his slack fingers, grounding harmlessly into the floor.
She dribbled the fluid on a pinch of tinder in another bowl, while a dun snake watched with silent stare.
Yet tinder dribbled with olive oil burnt with sputtering and black smoke.
With the wet feather, she dribbled a pattern on white limestone that was bare of moss.
Pierrette's shadow pooled about her feet as if darkness dribbled from her and stained the ground, yet where the mage stood, sunlight illuminated every pebble.
Hal could seeblood running out of her open gun ports and scuppers in bright rivuletsthat dribbled down her sides.