Bad news about American orchestras, their finances, their audiences and their musical operations had been trickling in piecemeal for years.

An hour had passed since battle had struck in Chinatown; but news of that strife had not yet trickled to Zallock's haven.

When news of the plan trickled to the community, local residents formed an opposition group called Save the Chelsea Historic District.

Today, they sat inside a Red Cross shelter at the Lebanon Junction Elementary School and listened as bad news trickled in.

Before dawn the news had trickled about that the military inquiry would take place that day.

I had little to smile about, if the news about the Venus rocket had trickled down to the President.

Anyway, some actual news trickling through: the latest is that Michael Dawson, Scott Parker and Tom Huddlestone are all going to miss out.

Another Boston paper, from 1719, reports the late-breaking death of Blackbeard the pirate - but only on Page 6; the type was set as the news trickled in.

Some garbled news had obviously trickled through.

If news of his report had trickled back from Darraga's, the blame would have been placed on Alvara, if he alone had known of Verdugo.