How to Use dribs and drabs in a Sentence
dribs and drabs
plural noun-
My father agreed to give us something in dribs and drabs.
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Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
9 Oct. 2025
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All new parents know that precious moments with your firstborn come in dribs and drabs and then in a torrent.
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Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
18 Sep. 2025
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Over the years, the photos come out in dribs and drabs, less frequently than his singles, though both were occasions for celebration.
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Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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Money arrived in dribs and drabs — Walmart vouchers for a few hundred dollars at a time, sent by Youngblood.
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Matthew Bremner,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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But the film plays so coy with its backstory, offering it in dribs and drabs, that its initial emotional tension soon turns vaporous and phony.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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An overnight smash is a fun phenomenon to follow; so is an artist who’s building audience identification in daily dribs and drabs, not big power moves, until suddenly a choir or army of twentysomething women that wasn’t there two years ago is blasting your ears out.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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