The word "dribble" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning to flow or spurt out in drops or a thin stream, or to pass a ball in basketball by bouncing it along the ground. For example, "She dribbled the basketball across the court before shooting it at the hoop."
Ancelotti added weight to his frontline by replacing the midfielder Thiago Motta with Gameiro and the newcomer's tricky dribble caused enough confusion in the Valencia defence to allow Lavezzi to finish.
He is fascinated by seamy details, describing lovemaking just so he can get to the dribble of saliva flowing from a lover's mouth the next morning ("A Parisian Affair", 1881), or envisioning a barroom as an expressionist horror: "They wriggled their bellies and shook their bosoms, spreading about them the powerful smell of female flesh in sweat.
Unfortunately, when it comes to pouring I always get that pesky dribble down the underside of the spout (the "teapot effect").
Brighton fans do not have many fond memories of playing at the Withdean Stadium, but this dipping volley from Zamora is one of them, while a chaotic dribble for West Ham against Birmingham City in December was another moment to cherish.
To serve, dribble some syrup on top of each pudding and serve with the shortbread alongside.
"I shouldn't have paid for a pass," he said ruefully.More on these subjects will dribble out on this blog or in the paper in the coming days, but for now this wraps up the live SXSW coverage.
The dribble of top managers and engineers leaving the company has turned into something of a spurt.
The best of the rest receive a dribble of new money, and more than 40% are losing assets.
Life for the 43-year-old labourer, already pretty miserable in the Lahore slum where he lives, is more unbearable without a fan to cool him at night or a pump to guarantee water.Like many of his countrymen, he has never paid a rupee towards the cost of the dribble of electricity used by his wife and five children, who all live in a one-bedroom flat.
Some venture capitalists set performance targets and dribble out funding as a company meets them.
He did also announce some intriguing new products—such as an expansion of Google Video, a download service that allows anybody to sell videos thus continuing a seemingly endless dribble of product launches that cumulatively suggest astonishing ambition.
