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drizzle

[driz-uhl] / ˈdrɪz əl /


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The southern half of the UK is likely to be more cloudy and have a muggy feel with the chance of light rain and drizzle.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Chances for drizzle and light rain linger through Friday,” the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

As for toppings, finish each bowl with a drizzle of olive oil or a dollop of Greek yogurt if you’re craving protein.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 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

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

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

Temperatures will rise this week in Southern California, bringing summer weather back after brief drizzles over the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

Light streamed in the door, hazy, warped, blurred with drizzles of yellow.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

“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

The classic toasted sesame roll, drizzled with olive oil, and stuffed to the brim with meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion — delicious.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025

June scooped up handfuls of water and drizzled them slowly across May’s back.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

It was drizzling Saturday evening in Torrance outside the multi-gabled house with tall hedges house where Allen is believed to have lived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

She starts by drizzling olive oil and sprinkling kosher salt on a slice of homemade sourdough before toasting.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025

A watery sun was trying to break through the clouds now and it had stopped drizzling at last.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling


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