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
You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.
From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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 Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
He pretended to be angry, and asked her, with a frown, how she could dare to besprinkle her sovereign; she replied—"When children play together there is no distinction between the prince and the peasant."
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William
It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.
From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Glyn, Elinor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
