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
She had still to bring away luggage from Maienthal, to besprinkle her friendships, and once more to set foot in the magic circle of her beloved teacher; and had, therefore, gone off.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
Beflower, be-flow′ėr, v.t. to cover or besprinkle with flowers.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
Then take her blood, and cast it on this brake, And therewithal besprinkle all his face, And he shall be restored to his sense, His health and memory, as heretofore.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew
