sprinkly
Collocations
5ADJ.
aquatic, most, slow
VERB + SPRINKLY
dripping
SPRINKLY + NOUN
drizzle, motion, portland's
PREP.
in, in, off
ADV.
rather
Definitions
adj
Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.
The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.
Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.
Subject to being sprinkled on.
I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill.
Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
Mary Richmond, general secretary of the Baltimore Organization Society, was disturbed because "under the name of settlement, the old-fashioned mission, distributing a cheap and sprinkly sort of charity, can do more harm than under the right name."
Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
I have it planned exactly what you look like--very satisfactorily--until I reach the top of your head, and then I AM stuck. I can't decide whether you have white hair or black hair or sort of sprinkly grey hair or maybe none at all.
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3The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.
WiktionaryHumbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.
WiktionaryI had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill.
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