How to Use trickle-down in a Sentence

trickle-down

adjective
Definition of trickle-downnext
  • The trickle-down effect left the Spurs hurting on the bench.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The idea of trickle-down economics doesn't work, in my view.
    — Robert Costa, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • And this may have a trickle-down effect on our health and well-being.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean there won’t be trickle-down effects.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Courtesy of Isaac Now that the law is in place in his own state, Isaac is concerned about the trickle-down effect.
    — Maura Barrett, NBC News, 18 June 2024
  • But experts said posts like these tend to have a trickle-down effect.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • And the American populace doesn’t seem to like this change from many decades of, well, trickle-down.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 July 2023
  • The effects of those trickle-down policies have become all too clear.
    — Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Few schools are completely immune to the Tuscaloosa trickle-down.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • And in the world of sports, trickle-down economics can be a viable option when nothing else worked.
    — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • If the scientists’ scheme works, the return of seabirds—and their prodigious poop—should have trickle-down effects around the island.
    — Tim Lydon, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • This damage to wildlife can have a trickle-down effect to damage the entire ecosystem.
    — Katherine Gallagher, Treehugger, 29 June 2023
  • But that trickle-down effect hasn’t been enough to sustain and grow the Classic ridership.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The trickle-down effects can be seen throughout U.S. culture.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There’s some concern that the absence of this year’s event will have a trickle-down effect on the biking community.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
  • The interference with commercial trade in the Red Sea has a trickle-down effect that could drive up the costs of goods on Maryland households.
    — Chevy Weiss, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
  • But 10 years later, trickle-down tech has made the Artura a downright bargain.
    — Peter Nelson, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Also, there’s a trickle-down effect in football in which the NFL does something and, to a degree, college and high school football follow suit.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Their success signals the future of AI adoption and has a trickle-down effect on the e-commerce industry.
    — Max Firsau, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Shortages in these areas have a direct trickle-down impact on the taxpayers.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • There’s also a trickle-down economic effect, even for those who weren’t displaced.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But the higher shipping costs will have a trickle-down effect in the long run, ultimately hitting consumers.
    — Ruth Liao, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • There could be an additional trickle-down effect from fewer rideshares or food orders and even less of a chance of drunk online shopping.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
  • One of the main ones being, obviously, the increasingly wide gap between people who have a lot of money and people who don’t, and the trickle-down effect that has on the world.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This has created a trickle-down trend where the upper middle and middle class don’t have the same demand for luxury goods and status markers.
    — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Invite leaders into the minds of bad actors and explain how system gaps and human oversight have a trickle-down effect.
    — Steve Gickling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The shift in snowpack literally has trickle-down results.
    — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The performance trickle-down effect also has assisted in keeping the sole plant that produces Corvette in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on two shifts since 2019.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 25 July 2024
  • And some health care experts and doctors were optimistic that the boon to Einstein would be felt beyond the campus, with a trickle-down effect that would eventually improve health care across the Bronx.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Dittmar added that President Donald Trump’s campaign emphasized masculinity, which had a trickle-down effect.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 22 Jan. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'trickle-down.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: