driblet

Example Sentences

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But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rest, except for the driblet evacuated by air, return to rear areas aboard transports, which are usually crowded and cannot hope to have the exceptional facilities of a hospital ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Compared with Ted Turner's $1 billion pledge to the United Nations, White's largesse is a driblet.

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Last month Ashokan with a 17-billion gal. driblet in it was declared virtually empty.

From Time Magazine Archive

He opened it, and shared the driblet with a few of the old campaigners.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet