Melted cheese dripped onto fingers.

Meaning: This sentence is describing what happens when melted cheese is not eaten carefully. It is saying that the cheese can drip onto your fingers.

Choice of Words: Melted means changed from a solid to a liquid by heat. Cheese is a dairy product made from milk. Dripped means to fall or flow in drops. Onto means to a position on the surface of something. Fingers are the long, thin parts of the hand that are used for touching and grasping.

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Liquid cheese drizzled onto fingertips.

Meaning: This means that the liquid cheese fell in a thin stream onto someone's fingertips.

Choice of Words: Liquid means that the cheese is not solid, but it is not a gas either. Drizzled means that the liquid cheese fell in a thin stream. Fingertips are the very ends of the fingers. When you put these words together, it means that the liquid cheese fell in a thin stream onto someone's fingertips.

Hot cheese oozed onto digits.

Meaning: This means that the very warm cheese slowly flowed out of something and onto someone's fingers.

Choice of Words: Hot means that the cheese is very warm. Oozed means that the cheese slowly flowed out of something. Digits are another word for fingers. When you put these words together, it means that the very warm cheese slowly flowed out of something and onto someone's fingers.

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