Sprinkly

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(of precipitation) Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of precipitation) Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.
2. Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
3. Subject to being sprinkled on.
4. Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
5. Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
6. Resembling sprinkles.

Example Sentences

The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.

Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.

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.

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."

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.

When they are cool, ice them in pretty pastel colours and decorate with interesting sprinkly things. These might include hundreds-and-thousands, sugar flowers, the tops of iced gems (bite the biscuit off first), crystallised violets...

Christmas cookies and lemonade I made it safe and sound to my godmother's house in time to frost cookies and dip them in those little sprinkly things...

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• more sprinkly
• most sprinkly

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