as in sprinkles
a light or fine rain
the intermittent drizzle was just heavy enough to spoil all of our outdoor activities
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Recent Examples of drizzles
Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Finished with drizzles of hot honey, this is a slice that blurs the line between lunch and dessert.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2025
It is dipped in red icing and Biscoff cookie crumble before being topped with golden icing drizzles and the Gryffindor crest.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
Plus, the cookies are not decorated with Crumbl’s common drizzles, pipings or crumbles.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzles
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Louisiana-style king cakes are made of sweet cinnamon pastry covered in white frosting and sprinkles in the colors of Mardi Gras — green for faith, purple for justice, and gold for power.—
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Classmate Kamryn McElvain completed the scoring in the first minute of the second half during the onset of sprinkles that persisted the rest of the way.—
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Light snow dusts the canyon’s upper rims, crowds thin, the air turns crisp, and one of the most magical Christmas experiences in the country appears.—
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Winter is also a wonderful surprise, when soft snow blankets valley trails and dusts the mountaintops.—
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During years of drought, when the water level dropped, trees grew in the lake bed, but when water returned following heavy rainfalls, the trees lost all their leaves and were just bare trunks and branches.—
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The researchers analyzed tree-ring data from across Europe to see how temperatures fluctuated across the century leading up to the Black Death to better understand the massive rainfalls Bauch had seen referenced in records.—
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The warmer temperatures also mean ski areas have been unable to run snowmaking equipment, which sprays mist into the air to create snow in freezing temperatures.—
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If this is the version of Smith that sprays the ball around to his playmakers and threw four touchdowns against the Jaguars last week, the Raiders can hang.—
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Not helping matters is a snowstorm that blankets the seaside town.—
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Pennywise blankets the town of Derry in a thick and mysterious fog.—
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“Drizzles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzles. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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