Adjective modifier

• steady: Overhead a steady trickle of Swallows plus the odd House Martin.

• mere: The extremely dry early spring meant Ingleborough's streams were a mere trickle.

• slow: They can't explain why the slow trickle away from final salary schemes has become a raging torrent.

• constant: Despite this he fished on and fed a constant trickle of maggots into his swim, with a static bait over the top.

• thin: I found her inert, her head hanging down, a thin trickle of blood running from the corner of her mouth.

• gentle: Instead, a gentle trickle arrived from approximately 0630 onwards.

Modifies a noun

• ventilator: A trickle ventilator may be incorporated within the window frame.

• vent: You may have trickle vents on your windows that you can keep open, too.

• irrigation: The controlled trickle irrigation system allows the precise control of salinity levels in the field.

• charger: I think you may do best to run the pump off a car battery maintained by a trickle charger.

• ventilation: It can be opened for trickle ventilation or fully opened to allow access to the roof for maintenance.

• boast: If Fran learned a tight drop shot and trickle boast once every ten shots or so, it would improve her game 30 % .

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: Pete felt a bead of sweat trickle down his face, despite the chill of the Welsh autumn evening.

Followed by a transitive particle

• down: By giving the rich all the wealth, poor people were supposed to benefit by a " trickle down effect " .

Preposition: of

• migrant: The trickle of visible migrants included 3 White Wagtails passing overhead at the Bill.

• blood: She touches the fresh trickle of blood on her head.

• water: A trickle of water enters here down an aven.