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as in rainfalls
a light or fine rain
decided it was not worth carrying an umbrella for just a sprinkle
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as in handfuls
a small number
received only a sprinkle of suggestions for the name of the school mascot
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as in dots
to mark with small spots especially unevenly
sprinkled the cake with bits of coconut
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Recent Examples of sprinkles
Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2025
It is made of soft sugar cookie pieces, icing and sprinkles all blended with soft serve ice cream.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
The two returning drinks are the Hazelnut Truffle Mocha with soft top and caramel drizzle and the Candy Cane Mocha with soft top and candy cane sprinkles.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Each shell is made from a mix of Torres’ signature hot chocolate and Belgian dark chocolate and filled with mini marshmallows and sprinkles.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Also on the menu is a returning favorite, Frosted Sugar Cookie Blizzard, which takes DQ’s famous soft serve and blends in soft sugar cookie pieces and icing and festive sprinkles.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2025
The Broncos sit atop the AFC West with a 5-2 record, thanks in part to sprinkles of pixie dust.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
Decorate with royal icing, writing gel, little candies or sprinkles.
—Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Classic donuts—including Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry Frosted—are also getting a seasonal makeover, trading their usual sprinkles for a chocolate-and-orange blend in honor of Halloween.
—Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
The shareable treat features Galactic Brownie ice cream, fudge drizzle, M&Ms candies, and Halloween sprinkles atop a double fudge brownie crust.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
The show also sprinkles in factoids about Daniel’s military past, his upbringing in Italy and his fractured family dynamic.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
John Wood mans the kit; Jeff Adamczyk sprinkles stars above on keys.
—Jonathan Terrell, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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Donut enthusiasts, don't despair—of course, Dunkin' capitalized on the double entendre of Munchkins, giving the donut brand's Old Fashioned Glazed Munchkins a makeover with the addition of pink and green sprinkles.
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Much like Knives Out, the movie takes a much more lighthearted approach and sprinkles humor throughout.
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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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Sprinkle a few handfuls of wood ashes around your hydrangea in early spring and water it in.—
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Police said three masked suspects committed that robbery and pepper-sprayed an employee before escaping with handfuls of merchandise.—
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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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Barnett dots up Knight for a 57-yard catch-and-run.—
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Rather than the stiff alien chitchat that dots his own screenplays, the characters in The Favourite trade the witty, venomous bon mots of The Great creator Tony McNamara.—
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Reagan and Wyman were among the most powerful couples in Hollywood at the time of adoption, having met on the set of the 1938 military comedy Brother Rat, and with Wyman winning an Oscar for her performance in the gritty drama Johnny Belinda in 1948.—
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In the 1960s, Weiss, the sociologist, published research on married couples who moved to the Boston area from another state.—
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Instead, each child interacts only with a sophisticated artificial intelligence, which peppers them with questions about everything from mathematics to philosophy.—
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Instead, the original body features a patina that peppers its exterior and is a point of celebration, preserved and maintained for true uniqueness.—
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The gentle, softening formula (one of its five ingredients is glycerin) cuts through multiple coats of polish and wipes away even the clingiest glitter flecks, all without stripping your nails of every last ounce of moisture.—
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Plus, the cookies are not decorated with Crumbl’s common drizzles, pipings or crumbles.—
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Finished with drizzles of hot honey, this is a slice that blurs the line between lunch and dessert.—
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“Sprinkles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprinkles. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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