The meaning of TRICKLE is to issue or fall in drops. How to use trickle in a sentence.

1. The act or condition of trickling. 2. A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently.

The young people are gradually trickling away from the district, seeking work elsewhere.

When a liquid trickles, or when you trickle it, it flows slowly in very small amounts. A tear trickled down the old man's cheek. [VERB preposition/adverb] Trickle water gently over the back of …

to come, go, or pass bit by bit, slowly, or irregularly: The guests trickled out of the room. v.t. to cause to trickle. n. a trickling flow or stream. a small, slow, or irregular quantity of anything …

[intransitive, transitive] trickle (something) + adv./prep. to go, or to make something go, somewhere slowly or gradually. People began trickling into the hall. News is starting to trickle …

TRICKLE definition: to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream. See examples of trickle used in a sentence.

trickling, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

to go or come slowly, irregularly, or in small numbers. Viewers trickled through the gallery. to cause to flow, fall, go, or come thinly or irregularly. She trickled the coins between her fingers. …

There are a lot of ways water can flow, but one type of slow dripping is called trickling. If your shower is only releasing a trickle of water, you're not going to get much of a shower.