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
After we did, Doc gave us a little cologne to drizzle on the root bags.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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You can add syrup drizzles on top, you can add soft-top cold foam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Another cloudy, cool weekend is on tap for Southern California, with a strengthening marine layer expected to drop temperatures and possibly bring drizzles by the end of the week.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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 recipe itself calls for a heaping amount of snow packed into a coffee mug, which is then topped with generous drizzles of chocolate and salted caramel sauce.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024
The sun was shining hot, like it thought it was still July, and November drizzles were a whole season away.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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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
By contrast, toxically naive Glinda is convinced that everyone could be kind if she drizzled them with honey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
It drizzled, it misted, it sprinkled, and finally it froze.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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The last step was drizzling a tablespoon of good olive oil over the batter which was a trick I had learned in one of the myriad baking newsletters I now subscribed to.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 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
Significant rainfall isn’t expected in Southern California, but a deep marine layer could bring some coastal drizzling or even some showers Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning, Lund said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
It is drizzling down the heels of my shoes and is getting clammy.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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