The oars only dipped into the water at long intervals.

Your form must dip at some stage and May has been a bad month for me.

The coal seams dipped at 1 to 4.5 towards the south.

Hand and head dipped at precisely the same moment.

As it was, the 12-team league dipped 585,037 at the gate.

Shares in the technology company dipped soon after the report went live, at one point wiping $9.9bn (£6.5bn) from its $230bn value.

In effect, the sun was so low that it dipped at the moment.

She dipped a hand into the small pouch at her side.

The shares dipped to their lowest point in more than three years at $36.51 during the first few minutes of trading.

Perhaps the answer is to dip into this book at random, to nibble a while and return for more later.