Sentence examples for be trickle from inspiring English sources

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be trickle

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To pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously

  • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

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We know that for these changes and others to happen, policy won't be trickle down from the national level, but bubble up from the grass roots.

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The economics here would not be trickle-down but levelling-up, creating cleaner, safer, more appealing spaces for people living in a variety of housing.

Unfortunately, the only silicon chips cheap and fast enough to act as memories in such devices are DRAMs (dynamic random-access memories), which must be trickle-fed electricity to prevent them getting an attack of amnesia.

And if they win, it will be trickle-up, foreigners are nasty, crush the poor, sod the NHS, greed is excellent, hooray for landlords and colossal corporations ruling the world, just as they already do – but for ever.

Instead, we had the mirage of an economic "plan" for jobs and growth, which on closer inspection turned out to be trickle-down economics based on a bunch of tax cuts for the better off.

Cash may be trickling, but anxiety is gushing forth.

Now it seems that there will be "trickle-up" instead: Volvo's sharp design, excellent safety engineering and strong build quality will influence everything Ford does.

Still, additional small payments appear to be trickling in.

And the kind of plan that Donald has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again.

The crowd laughed, cheered and applauded when Clinton said Trump's economic plan would be "trickle-down economics all over again".

Thus, whilst there still is a stigmatizing 'ignorant' minority, NGO campaign efforts appear to be trickling through.

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