trickle

As updates trickled in, Mahama became increasingly anxious - he had heard no word from his father.

A tear trickled down the cheek of the Scotland manager.

That pressure is very often from players and managers in the fierce hothouse of elite-level football, trickling right down to the grassroots.

But one party is committed to democracy and democratic norms, and that trickles down.

Democrats, meanwhile, are hoping that the last votes trickling in in a handful of tight races will be enough to give them a majority in the House.