What's the difference between drizzly and grizzly?
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.
Grizzly
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat gray; grizzled.
(n.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.
(a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
(2) • Oh, and a lot of this micromanaging was due to the fact that Pera was upset because Joerger and others called off a proposed one-on-one basketball game between the owner and Grizzlies guard Tony Allen .
(3) His defense was a big reason that the Grizzlies' offense was often stymied during the conference finals, so much so that he would probably be a person of interest if basketball investigators looked into the mysterious May disappearance of Grizzles forward Zach Randolph.
(4) The federal government also indicated it would move ahead to remove protections for grizzlies in the Yellowstone area.
(5) And it's that grizzly commitment to glaring and bone-crunching that's made him so internationally bankable.
(6) Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) attacks resulting in human injury and known to have occurred in the national parks of North America were examined.
(7) Meanwhile, in the NBA on Sunday, the Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore – a St Louis native – played with “RIP Mike Brown” written on one of his shoes during the team’s 97-85 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
(8) His reasoning: not “potential grizzlies”, but the constitution.
(9) Swab specimens were obtained from nasal, rectal, and preputial or vaginal areas of 37 grizzly and 17 black bears, captured during May to June of 1981 to 1983, to determine the types and frequency of predominant aerobic microflora.
(10) Gasol was also expected to have an MRI on Saturday after leaving the Grizzlies' 102-86 loss to San Antonio early in the second quarter.
(11) The Buk missile, codenamed "Grizzly" by Nato, was developed by the USSR in the 1970s to shoot down cruise and other missiles.
(12) Disneynature's next big feature also happens to be about grizzly bears; one suspects Herzog won't be getting the call.
(13) In my state, I don’t believe we have grizzly bears,” he said.
(14) After Game 5, the Grizzlies had a 3-2 series lead over the Thunder and were a victory away from handing Oklahoma City an utterly unexpected and confounding opening round loss.
(15) Comparative anatomic studies of the bony labyrinths of humans and those of a full grown pony, zebra, grizzly bear, seal and domestic cow were performed.
(16) The provisional 2012 USA squad for the Games is : LaMarcus Aldridge (Portland Trail Blazers); Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks); Chauncey Billups (Los Angeles Clippers); Chris Bosh (Miami Heat); Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers); Tyson Chandler (New York Knicks); Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder); Rudy Gay (Memphis Grizzlies); Eric Gordon (New Orleans Hornets); Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers); Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic); Andre Iguodala (Philadelphia 76ers); LeBron James (Miami Heat); Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves); Lamar Odom (Dallas Mavericks); Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers); Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat); Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder); and Deron Williams (New Jersey Nets).
(17) That leaves three spots available for four very worthwhile teams: the Golden State Warriors (48-29), Dallas Mavericks (48-31), Phoenix Suns (46-31) and Memphis Grizzlies (45-32).
(18) Western Conference LaMarcus Aldridge, Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers); DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings); James Harden, Dwight Howard (Houston Rockets); Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks), Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs); Mike Conley (Memphis Grizzlies); Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans): Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors).
(19) Fifty to 60% of the larvae in grizzly bear meat were alive after storage for 27 months at -6.5 to -20 C, and 30% to 50% were still alive at 34 months.
(20) While the Nets did actually end up winning a game, Saturday's 97-88 win over the Memphis Grizzlies, head coach Kidd ended up losing his Hall of Fame forward (Paul Pierce), his assistant coach ( Lawrence Frank, who has been "reassigned" ) and $50,000.