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

This same For�t d'Orleans, one of those wild-woods which so plentifully besprinkle France, has a sad and doleful memory in the traditions of the druidical inhabitants of a former day.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

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

He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.

From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)