(v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
(v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
(v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.
(v. t.) To let fall in drops.
(n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
Example Sentences:
(1) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
(2) Villas-Boas paid £15m to bring the Belgian from Fulham and the signs are that he could prove a bargain, as Dembélé is emerging as one of the most complete midfielders in the Premier League, boasting strength, tenacity, creative passing, tricky dribbling and dangerous shooting.
(3) At one point Liverpool's young, raw full-back could be seen dribbling round Juan Mata.
(4) Alexander says the information is being "dribbled out" in a way that he believes is intended to inflict "maximum harm": I believe it's being done in a way that would cause maximum harm.
(5) A male adolescent presented with perineal dribbling during voiding.
(6) It has emerged, however, from a document that circulated among journalists and academics in South Africa, and which finally dribbled into print in 2005, that Mandela condoned his wife's statement.
(7) His fourth goal was a header from a cross by Jesé, who scored the team’s sixth a minute later after a dribble through the defence and a shot that went in at the base of the post.
(8) This scenario seems a world away from the days when his parents, Dave and Sonia Johnson, realised their five-year-old son manipulated the mini-football he continually dribbled around their home in Easington, County Durham, with quite extraordinary dexterity.
(9) Yet the veteran’s touch betrayed weary limbs, forcing him wide, with his shot dribbling beyond the far post and behind.
(10) Stoke kept Sánchez mostly subdued until the 57th minute, when the South American embarked on a dribble of which Diego Maradona would have been proud.
(11) at times they have carved Chelsea open with some cracking short dribbles and quick unpredictable movement, but sadly have picked up a couple of their least desirable traits."
(12) The centre-half had collected a throw-in on 15 minutes and attempted a blind pass infield, only to dribble the ball straight to a rampaging Costa.
(13) Following dilatation, bladder emptying into condom catheters was achieved in all patients without dribbling incontinence.
(14) I’ll make sure they stay interested.” Trump’s post-convention tribulations just prompted Time magazine to publish a stylised image of his head dribbling like hot wax beside a single word headline: “ Meltdown ”.
(15) Richards’s association with City goes back to the age of 14, when he arrived for a trial from Oldham Athletic and remembers being blown away by Shaleum Logan “playing up front, dribbling around everyone, and I was thinking: ’Oh my God, he’s unbelievable.’ I wasn’t used to the pace of the game.
(16) He was teed up by Gervinho, who had put the fear into Colombia with another dribble, but Kalou scuffed straight at Ospina from 18 yards.
(17) 8.22pm GMT 36 min: Kagawa dinks and dribbles down the right and into the area.
(18) The most frequent symptoms were poor stream (in 70%), frequency (50%) and dribbling (37%), while 30 % had nocturia, and 20% urgency, dysuria or perineal pain during voiding.
(19) They can’t look straight at me – they’re dribbling wrecks.” Rob was killed 20 years ago, but Kilgour didn’t begin to process his death until he started getting arrested repeatedly for violent assault.
(20) Reformers finally have the jolt in the arm they needed to prevent the positive impact of Snowden’s revelations dribbling away.
Small
Definition:
(superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
(superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
(superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
(superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
(superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.
(adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
(adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
(n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
(n.) Smallclothes.
(n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
(v. t.) To make little or less.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(2) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(3) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(4) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(6) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(7) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(8) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(9) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(10) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(11) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(12) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(13) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(14) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(15) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(16) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
(17) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.
(18) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(19) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(20) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.