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drizzle

[driz-uhl] / ˈdrɪz əl /


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Students cheered as they stacked rubbish bins against the entrance to a school outside Paris, while a speaker thumped out French rap to young people, teachers and parents mingling in the early morning drizzle.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The southern half of the UK is likely to be more cloudy and have a muggy feel with the chance of light rain and drizzle.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Chances for drizzle and light rain linger through Friday,” the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Once finished, transfer the baby bok choy to your bowl of ramen and drizzle with sesame oil.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

The three of them launched into small talk about the crowd and Christmas and the weather and school—and their words felt like tiny droplets of rain, like the drizzle that says, Watch out.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

You can add syrup drizzles on top, you can add soft-top cold foam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

He clearly relishes soft playing, with sensitive effects of distant bells and moonlit drizzles in Messiaen’s “La Colombe” and “Le Nombre Léger,” and a murmured sotto voce in Chopin’s Op.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

Temperatures will rise this week in Southern California, bringing summer weather back after brief drizzles over the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

The resulting drizzles and smears around my station confirmed that I'm not destined for a new career, but the raw materials assured the final product would still be epic.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

His laughter forms a pale-blue cloud that kind of drizzles down as it dissolves.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Fatty slices of avocado, dusted with everything bagel seasoning or drizzled in chili crisp?

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

“Meghan imagined what it would taste like to have a sage honey drizzled on her Thanksgiving turkey,” the newsletter revealed.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

By contrast, toxically naive Glinda is convinced that everyone could be kind if she drizzled them with honey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

“Everyone likes a chicken sandwich,” he notes, but while older consumers still drink hot, black coffee, younger ones gravitate toward colorful energy drinks and iced concoctions that look perfect drizzled with caramel on TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025

Throughout the morning it had drizzled on and off, but now the clouds were breaking up.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

A rally this month organized by the graduate student union and faculty groups drew well over 100 people despite drizzling rain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Extra virgin olive oil, for example, is packed with antioxidants and beneficial compounds but its low smoke point means it is better for salad dressings or drizzling over food rather than deep frying.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

On a drizzling Saturday night, a herd of teenagers dressed in floor-length gowns and fitted suits enter a hotel ballroom through a blue and gold balloon arch.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025

This small-batch, unfiltered olive oil is perfect for drizzling on burrata or sourdough.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024

It was drizzling, but even if there’d been no clouds the city sky was too tainted with light to show the stars.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman


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