Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for driblet
Noun
  • The Colorado Rapids, who have made their fair share of splash signings over the past two seasons, are ninth lowest in the league in payroll for their first-team players.
    Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 25 June 2025
  • The world’s largest sailing yacht just made a mighty splash in France.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Throughout the middle passage, it has been said that our ancestors wove familiar items such as beads, shells, or even seeds and grains from home into their braids, to keep with them along their journeys.
    Essence, Essence, 19 June 2025
  • The brand sells products like hair beads, gel, shampoo and conditioner on Nunn’s website.
    Emily Krauser, People.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Athletes and coaches are loath to admit even a shred of positive in any defeat, let alone in the immediate aftermath, but if ever the moral victory existed, can’t Inter Miami claim some of that even after a 4-0 defeat?
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 June 2025
  • Still, in a shred of good news, other figures showed that businesses are still investing, despite the persistent uncertainty over Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs and the potential impact of his massive tax and spending bill currently being reviewed by the US Senate.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2025
  • There were globs of stuff coming out of me, like sheets of it.
    Essence, Essence, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Despite this recent glimmer of hope, injected by crypto bull market excitement, overall public companies are struggling.
    Christopher Perkins, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • But there is a way out of this mess — and a glimmer of hope for Sox fans in the team’s second rebuild since 2017.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Use drip irrigation or soaker hoses under the vegetables to irrigate the,m but leave nearby weeds without water.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 June 2025
  • Copley’s landscape design includes a dry creek bed, drip irrigation, blue fescue grass, and a variety of colorful plants like orange kangaroo paw, purple salvia, and red autumn sage.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • On the side, there’s a salad of carrots, onions and peppers, a perfect scoop of white rice and a sprinkling of herbs.
    Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
  • Nonetheless, his asking out Brooks’s sister Chloe is the perfect sprinkling of drama to kick this show off.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • The water droplet did disperse quickly and evenly, though, suggesting that the material is still very moisture-wicking—a good quality for hot sleepers.
    Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
  • This typically happens when infected respiratory droplets are released into the air when a sick person talks, sings, sneezes or coughs.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 June 2025
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“Driblet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/driblet. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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