(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.
Misty
Definition:
(superl.) Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
(superl.) Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
(3) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(4) The Boston Herald , a local tabloid that spilled oceans of ink denouncing him in life, remembered him with uncharacteristic mistiness.
(5) The implant surfaces evaluated were Silastic II, Siltex, MISTI, Biocell, Silastic MSI, and Même.
(6) I’m sure there will be a few people that will be a misty-eyed about it leaving service, in the same way as Concorde: they are one plane that you can always recognise.” But, Holland-Kaye says, the difference in noise between the 747 and a new plane such as the A350, which comes into service this year, is stark: “It’s far quieter – less of a screeching noise and that’s really welcome for local communities.
(7) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(8) October 24, 2013 Daniel Robinson (@SalmonLeap2) @lengeldavid Third-generation @RedSox supporter getting misty eyed seeing Fenway Dublin.
(9) Note that vast landscape behind them: it depicts among misty mountains the epic wall begun by the first emperor of China more than 2,000 years ago .
(10) That same year, Eastwood directed his first film, Play Misty for Me.
(11) The adrenal function in diabetes mutant mice with misty coat colour (dbm) was investigated by measurements of serum corticosteroids, adrenal weights and adrenal corticosteroid content.
(12) Purified cultures of pancreatic islet cells 4--7 day old postnatal "misty diabetic" mice and normal siblings were established and then maintained in Eagle's minimal essential medium without serum.
(13) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
(14) Funny how they never get all misty-eyed and nostalgic for the low-profile, skint men they've known.
(15) The hotel’s Taberna bar is a popular post-work meeting spot, both for the quality of its tapas and the refreshing misty spray puffed over the outdoor seating area in summer.
(16) "At one point the ball was hoofed up the pitch and over the goal," recalls a misty-eyed Paul.
(17) There are seven black women gracing fall magazine covers: Willow Smith, Beyoncé, Kerry Washington, Ciara, Serena Williams, Misty Copeland and Amandla Stenberg.
(18) Behind that wan painting of misty mountains, millions of lives long for self-expression.
(19) My Facebook feed is filled with my friends’ pictures of crabs with no eyes, shrimp and crawfish with one eye or things missing,” Misty Fisher, 24, said.
(20) Throughout the last stretch of the journey, in a minibus driving along winding roads through the misty Welsh landscape, I am in full prodigal-son mode, returning to the land of my fathers, or at least my mother's fathers.