sprinkle
Example Sentences
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She peeled a banana, dropped it onto a piece of bread, and sprinkled it with fresh seaweed.
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Callan explains that he wears a gravity-fed backpack containing 15 litres of water, and his job is to sprinkle the ice with water droplets of different sizes.
From BBC
After he aced the exam and skated on Olympic ice, he said in a mix of broken German and sprinkled English that he had prepared hard for both tests.
My retirement has mostly been a fulfillment of that anticipation, with a few surprises sprinkled in.
It was his ninth birthday, and she’d found enough change to buy him a chocolate–peanut butter cupcake with sprinkles.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.