Sentence examples for as a drip from inspiring English sources

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The office is ringed by framed drawings by Picasso, Matisse and Giacometti as well as a drip painting by Jackson Pollock.

A singer with a strong physical resemblance to Norah Jones (Ms. Jones is heard on the soundtrack, composed by Jesse Harris, who has written hits for her), Sara might be described as a drip.

"This column is the latest in a series of stories and headlines in the Sun, some subsequently retracted, which act as a drip drip poisoning of community relations in the United Kingdom," wrote Warsi.

Well, if ever I was so desperately out of ideas as to "put myself" in a novel I can assure you it would not be as a drip like Sedley.

(I remember this vividly because it triggered a column about the origin of wimp, defined as "a person weepy as a drip and listless as a nebbish," derived from whimper and influenced by the name Wimpy, for a sleepy-eyed lover of hamburgers in the comic strip featuring Popeye the sailor.

Still, we included some rain samples as a drip event when it was possible to identify individual raindrops.  .

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She's not helped by a polite performance by Friend as Albert, who comes across as something of a drip.

I tried three models: The silicone Tuffy Steeper telescopes into a portable disc, and the lid doubles as a drip-saucer.

The dramatic downfall of CIA chief David Petraeus has given rise to political intrigue in Washington as a drip-feed of details concerning his clandestine affair mixes with serious questions over the timing of the resignation.

They are urging Bosnians to vote for politicians committed to a multiethnic future, who are deemed more capable of governing alone as a drip-feed of more than $5 billion in foreign aid starts to dry up.

I asked Ms. Meeropol over coffee last week whether the on-camera revelations of Abe Osheroff -- a friend (though he refers to Julius as a "drip-nose") and to this day a Rosenberg defender, but one who boasts that Julius provided the Soviets with vital specifications of an airplane propeller -- persuaded her that, indeed, Julius had been a Soviet spy.

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