drizzle

Example Sentences

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Even rain, a rarity in a region that averages fewer than 20 days a year, has a habit of arriving during the tournament’s early-March window, occasionally bringing cold drizzle and delays.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

He’d heeded Bojsen-Møller’s advice and gone easy with the drizzle of red wine added at the end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

With the roof on because of drizzle in Melbourne, Rybakina immediately broke serve and then comfortably held for 2-0.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

A drizzle of soy sauce, a scatter of scallions, and always — always — some lemon zest, which cuts through the yolk’s richness and, once blended, produces what my brain now registers as lazy hollandaise.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026

Still Ged waited, one hand on the yew-wood mast of his boat, staring into the icy drizzle that slowly drove in ragged lines across the sea from the north.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin