drizzle
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“Chances for drizzle and light rain linger through Friday,” the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Once finished, transfer the baby bok choy to your bowl of ramen and drizzle with sesame oil.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 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
The darkest clouds have passed, and only a light drizzle falls now.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
You can add syrup drizzles on top, you can add soft-top cold foam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
In a video uploaded to YouTube last year, home cook and food influencer Alexa Santos scores a wheel of brie, drizzles it with honey, and flips it into a hot cast-iron pan.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
A chilly spring storm system moving into Southern California on Saturday was expected to bring drizzles by 3 p.m. followed by a quarter to half an inch of rain through Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 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
The mountains of steaming basmati rice were capped with drizzles of saffron butter.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
I ordered a stir fry of crab and broken rice with greens and yam that came topped with a fried soft-shell crab drizzled with shito, a Ghanaian chili sauce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
I drizzled the berries with honey, added a fair amount of orange zest for brightness, tossed everything together and slid the tray into a hot oven.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
“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
These oils are gorgeous drizzled over hummus, whisked into salads, or stirred with za’atar for a simple, perfect dip.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
Rain drizzled down in the garden and a warm mist coated the air.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
Though it’s expected to start drizzling overnight, Angelenos likely won’t see heavy rainfall until late Monday afternoon, with showers predicted through the evening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
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
This small-batch, unfiltered olive oil is perfect for drizzling on burrata or sourdough.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
Outside the hotel, it was drizzling and Augustus and I stood on the brick sidewalk slowly getting wet.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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