The word "dipping" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an action in which something is lowered into a liquid or substance and then removed. For example, "She enjoyed dipping her French fries into ketchup."
We kept dipping his head on to a Jumbo Platter while it was crowning!
It is such a difficult tone to strike but Payne manages it with grace and charm, never dipping into sentimentality.
3.45 Epsom Hold onto your hats, it's the fastest race of the year, with some runnings dipping below 54 seconds.
Most of the sauces are also rather too thick at room temperature, but they're easily loosened with a little water or a dash more coconut milk for your dipping pleasure.
The gamble seems to have worked, with Mad Men attracting 1.6 million viewers for its premiere, with audiences dipping to around 1 million viewers an episode for the rest of the 13 episodes - although top dramas on higher-rated cable competitors, such as TNT and USA, draw 3 million or more.
Even if you limit yourself to dipping into one news title, you find a world of pain and problems demanding your attention.
Close to the park, Himalayan restaurant Yeti offers good-value dinners: prayer flags, mandalas and waiters in Nepali topi hats transport diners to Kathmandu, as do the momos stuffed with buffalo, vegetables or mutton, with three dipping sauces of escalating hotness.
And in the Dakotas, where single-digit temperatures – already about 30 degrees below normal – came with frigid wind chills, dipping as low as into the negative 20s in Dickinson, North Dakota.
Make sure that no water remains on the cherries before dipping.
Housebuilders came under particular pressure on the prospect of dearer borrowing costs, with Barratt Developments down 8p at 360.3p, Persimmon dipping 19p to £12.30 while Taylor Wimpey was 3.3p lower at 109.8p and Redrow fell 9.2p to 242.3p.
