What's the difference between drizzle and drizzly?

Drizzle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
  • (v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  • (n.) Fine rain or mist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
  • (2) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
  • (3) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
  • (4) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
  • (5) Today, a fully restored, boldly extended and slightly reworked St Pancras proves that we can have our boiled beef and our oil-drizzled fettuccine and eat it.
  • (6) Add spices, stud the dough with candied peel, chocolate chips, nuts or dried fruit, layer or plait it, roll it up or just drizzle it with water icing.
  • (7) 5 Season to taste again and drizzle the top with olive oil to serve.
  • (8) 400g black-eyed beans soaked overnight in cold water 30g unsalted butter 75ml olive oil, plus extra to drizzle 2 small pittas, torn into 4cm pieces 80g almonds, skin on, roughly chopped 1 tbsp za’atar, plus 1 tsp extra to serve ¼ tsp chilli flakes Salt and black pepper 50ml lemon juice ¾ tsp ground cumin 400g Greek yoghurt 3 tbsp tahini paste 1 small garlic clove, peeled and crushed 10g parsley, roughly chopped 1 lemon, cut into 6 wedges, to serve Drain the beans and put them in a medium saucepan filled with plenty of cold water.
  • (9) The evening sunshine is giving way to drizzle and a chilly wind.
  • (10) 7 Serve the leeks on top of a scoop of beans, sprinkled with hazelnuts and drizzled with olive oil, with crusty bread.
  • (11) Instead, for now, he is sitting in a farmhouse in the village of Brodersby in Schleswig-Holstein, looking out through a drizzle over the flat plains of northern Germany , his adopted home.
  • (12) Drizzle the tomatoes with two teaspoons of oil, a pinch of salt and some pepper, then griddle for two to three minutes, turning them every minute, until they have black char marks all over and the skin is splitting.
  • (13) And yet, as was clear talking to the ministers, current and former, seeking shelter from the Westminster drizzle in the media encampment of satellite trucks and makeshift tents on College Green, those who want Brown gone look weak too.
  • (14) The event starts at 5pm and my cab had me and my companion – LA actor and comic Sarah Coomes – there at about 3.15pm, in broad daylight and thin drizzle.
  • (15) It was forecast to dump icy drizzle and eventually freezing rain through the New York City area and into Boston, National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Heavener said.
  • (16) Instead of inching my way along a busy B-road in the drizzle, wearing a hard hat and a hi-vis jacket, I was on a black-and-white pony in the wild west, riding alongside men with names like Cody who talked kinda slow and carried lariats on their saddles.
  • (17) That's the end of the good news: cloud, light rain and patchy drizzle could affect most areas by evening.
  • (18) If I succeed in my attempt at a lemon drizzle cake this weekend, I’ll have Nancy to thank.
  • (19) Welcome to sunny England!” he said in the drizzle.
  • (20) The Malibu theme is at odds with the drizzle outside, but it at least makes sense for the station's listeners, thousands of whom are US Air Force personnel at nearby RAF Mildenhall.

Drizzly


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's now big enough to see Noah through all 40 of those drizzly days and nights.
  • (2) When Boris Nemtsov was shot dead, as he walked home on a drizzly Friday night in Moscow last month, Russia’s beleaguered liberal opposition realised tthe rules of the game had changed in the most shocking way.
  • (3) Agents were scattered across the property, scouring the lawn on a drizzly Monday morning.
  • (4) It was a cold, drizzly day on 6 December 1989 when a young man brandishing a firearm burst into a college classroom at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada .
  • (5) His memoirs are wholly uninformative about his motivations and, though called The Turbulent Years, make the Thatcher governments sound about as turbulent as a drizzly morning in Dorking.
  • (6) Victoria Gray remembers that when she set out to sing for the Queen's jubilee on the Thames, "it was drizzly and cold".
  • (7) It's a drizzly weekday night on the Doddington estate in Battersea.
  • (8) Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire) Updated at 12.15pm BST 10.59am BST There's plenty to play for on this drizzly but life-affirming afternoon at Craven Cottage.
  • (9) With weather reminiscent of drizzly British summers, locals visit the islands for some respite from the tropical heat, while tourists travel here for a completely different island experience from the rest of the Philippines.
  • (10) Equally grizzly and drizzly, equally northern and equally crime drama-y, Happy Valley explores such cheery themes as rape, suicide, drug abuse, kidnap and dreams unfulfilled.
  • (11) It takes just over an hour from Manchester, and the drive up through Lancashire is beautiful, if often a bit drizzly.
  • (12) There is a museum in downtown Bogotá, Colombia's drizzly capital set high in the Andes, where a lawyer's pinstripe suit stands on display in a glass case – pristine, but for two bullet holes in the back.
  • (13) Outwardly, it suggests a local take on the Family Fun Day episode of Phoenix Nights: small groups of locals tugging on cans of Bud Lite, the smoky aroma of such local delicacies as Boudini and pork cracklins, and parents trying to convey a sense of fun to their kids despite the underlying sense of drizzly anti-climax.
  • (14) On my final day in Fukushima, I wake up at 5am on a drizzly morning to see off Masami Takano, who is leaving his home of 30 years and his job as a chef.
  • (15) Trading Roger Moore impressions on a drizzly day in England was funny; doing it by the beauty of the Italian coast makes them seem like embarrassing uncles on a family holiday.
  • (16) It is a grey and drizzly afternoon in the town centre, and business would seem as disappointing as the Northamptonshire spring.

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