drizzle
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“Chances for drizzle and light rain linger through Friday,” the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Thousands of protesters started gathering from early Monday, defying a steady monsoon drizzle and police barricades put up on routes leading to the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Large raindrops fall five times faster than drizzle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Moscow authorities denied the "oil rain" but residents insisted to the BBC the dirty drizzle had marked their clothes.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
"Sit him up. Give him another full cup of Belle-rose tea. Add a drizzle of elixir."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
You can add syrup drizzles on top, you can add soft-top cold foam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
By Tuesday, the gray days are expected to return, and drizzles and light rain are possible, Wofford said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
Wednesday’s forecast look more like that typical June weather of overcast and drizzles.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
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
Light streamed in the door, hazy, warped, blurred with drizzles of yellow.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
“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
The classic toasted sesame roll, drizzled with olive oil, and stuffed to the brim with meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion — delicious.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025
The jeepney will circle the neighborhood while selling halo-halo, a sweet concoction of ice, milk, red beans, tapioca pearls, jackfruit, and coconut flesh—with even sweeter condensed milk drizzled on to stir in.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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
She starts by drizzling olive oil and sprinkling kosher salt on a slice of homemade sourdough before toasting.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025
The bones, wrapped up in a bundle like Santa Claus’ bag of toys, slapped up and down on the back of the priest who carried them, drizzling grease down his back.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
It was around eight o’clock and the streets were wet under a drizzling rain.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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