What is "trickle down"

Usage examples of "trickle down".

Exhausted and grieving and so full of regret that it welled up to trickle down the side of his face, mixing with blood.

I put water on to heat for tea, and then took his buckets out and down to the place where the trickle down the rock face came to a slight overhang and fell free.

I forced myself to relax, not to just stagger up and start running, but I felt a bead of sweat trickle down my face.

My hand trembled, and the cloudy liquid ran in a trickle down Duncan's chin.

She took a deep breath, feeling sweat trickle down between her breasts, beneath the loosened stays.

I said, trying to turn my face away from the blood that had decided to trickle down Damian’.

Tears began to trickle down her cheeks, yet she seemed unaware of them.

She felt something hot trickle down from her temple, where he had touched her skin.

The taste was strong and unpleasant, iodine and peppery, but Centaine let the liquid trickle down her throat and whispered with delight.

Foliage shredded where Locklear had hidden as the little man dropped below the surface, feeling two hot slugs trickle down his back after their velocity was spent underwater.

He felt it spread as blood began to trickle down the back of his shirt-collar.

As they moved from the shadow of the cliffs to the broken rock beyond, sweat began to trickle down her sides, under the mail.

The maester inserted a curved copper funnel through the feeding hole over his mouth and poured a slow trickle down his throat.