Crossword clues for trickling
trickling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trickle \Tric"kle\ (tr[i^]k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled (tr[i^]k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling (tr[i^]k"kl[i^]ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. str[imac]can. See Strike, v. t.] To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
His salt tears trickled down as rain.
--Chaucer.
Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. The act of something that trickles. vb. (present participle of trickle English)
Usage examples of "trickling".
It was a cold night, but sweat was trickling down his face and stinging his eyes.
Occasionally they passed wigwams of branches, or glimpsed tree huts high up, or saw paths wending toward caves trickling smoke.
The Veritas trickling into other landholdings exerted an enormous destabilizing influence.
He heard a gurgling sound and the splash of water trickling over stone.
There was a rivulet of sweat trickling down her temple, and the traders tightened their holds.
Ryan felt a cold sweat trickling down the small of his back, the hairs prickling at his nape.
Both eyes closed and her mouth split, blood trickling down her chin and over the front of her black dress.
She was on her back, mouth open, the flow of blood trickling steadily down her throat and into the air passages to her lungs, beginning to drown her.
The rain was pooling in gullies and trickling along to form streams that flowed toward the quarry.
The leathery mutie shrieked and struggled, tiny rivulets of blood trickling down to the floor.
Tears formed in her eyes, trickling from their corners as he knelt beside her and covered her with his coat.
Hugh had made his camp near a spring, its trickling sounds half-noticed till now.
Others had perished in the harsh days that followed, for spring did not come that year, and the previously wide and swift river was a trickling thread groping its way to the sea through a choke of fine ash.
One Hetgurd man was down, unconscious in the snow, blood trickling from his nose and ears.
He was withdrawing from my life and I felt as though I were bleeding to death, my life trickling out of me.