Even as it was, Garai felt his conviction start to trickle away.

How can it when my senior staff is trickling away one by one?

But the songs soon trickled away, and the shouting ceased.

He had never been so aware of time as a liquid, like blood flowing, trickling away.

For now, jobs are likely to continue trickling away.

The wind trickled away as suddenly as it had come.

That's why you can see the sand that shows how my time trickles away.

He had not checked on them in years, and the charge tended to trickle away.

He felt the little strength he had left trickling away.

Nothing seemed to be happening at all, in fact, and slowly the panic trickled away.