dip into

verb

1. to draw (upon)

   he dipped into his savings

2. to read (passages) at random or cursorily in (a book, newspaper, etc)

Example Sentences

That frees you up to dip into the human soup of the boardwalk for people-watching at its finest: pigeon-training, python-handling carnies, vendors who can write your name on a grain of rice or balance your chakras.

From Los Angeles Times

He argues that there needs to be a central government programme, with a “pot of money for councils to dip into as and when they need money to carry out enforcement,” along the lines of a scheme operated by the Welsh government.

From BBC

"Liminal spaces are transitional or transformative spaces that are neither here nor there; they are the in-between places or thresholds we pass through from one area to another," the article explains, citing University of Missouri professor Dr. Timothy Carson who uses the pandemic as an example of how a person can dip into them, referring to it as an "involuntary social liminality, a time/space that was full of uncertainty and ambiguity, all the landmarks gone, the future undefined."

From Salon

As well as having a growing black hole in their finances, councils were forced to dip into their reserves this year, drawing down more than £1bn in an effort to balance their books.

From BBC

Inland areas will still hover in the 80s and 90s, while temperatures could dip into the 70s along the coast.

From Los Angeles Times