besprinkle
Example Sentences
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019
Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive—as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her.
From Louisa Pallant by James, Henry
I. "By the Urdar fount dwelling, Day by day from the rill, The Nornas besprinkle The Ash Ygg-drasill."
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger; it lives on love, but it resembles those Alpine flowers which feed themselves by suction from the wet clouds, and die if you besprinkle them.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
