Meaning of sprinkly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.

Examples

“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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