besprinkle
Example Sentences
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger; it lives on love, but it resembles those Alpine flowers which feed themselves by suction from the wet clouds, and die if you besprinkle them.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.
From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
Beflower, be-flow′ėr, v.t. to cover or besprinkle with flowers.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
