Example sentences for: drips

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

  • That's hardly a new theme, but the director, Alexander Payne ( Citizen Ruth , 1996), has a Preston Sturges-like gift for going against the grain of his own cynicism, so that the movie fairly drips with irony without ever losing its raffish energy or its sense of wonder.

  • Explosive splashes and drips were supposed to be integral to his art, proof of the painting's volcanic authenticity.

  • It's the archetype for Marcel Duchamp's urinal, Jackson Pollock's drips, Andy Warhol's soup can, and Jasper Johns' flag.

  • The home of the Cuban National Ballet and Opera drips with ornate balustrades, shutters, and sculpted columns.

  • The title of his sendup of abstract expressionism, Painting with Two Balls (1960)--and there they are, squeezed forlornly between two big panels of drips and brushstrokes--is about as explicit as Johns ever gets.


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