Example sentences for: dripping

How can you use “dripping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thought, as Virginia Woolf said, plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

  • By the end of the decade, American cars were banana splits on wheels, dripping with the extraneous decoration that stylists called "gorp."

  • In the first three cases were diamond brooches made to adorn the spacious dresses of the belle époque , gleaming leaf-and-flower compositions that could sweep across a whole décolletage from shoulder to shoulder, or smaller ornaments festooned with graceful diamond swags and dripping with pendant diamond drops.

  • Critics term it "a silly, roiling melange of special effects and overheated religious symbolism" that is at heart a "half-baked anticlerical screed" with "lots of broken glass, bird feathers, dripping blood and desperately fancy camera angles" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit a fan page devoted to the film.)

  • This "vibrant, sumptuous novel" (Kate Flatley, the Wall Street Journal ) is dripping with slaver by the time reviewers finish with it.


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