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
Vials of good sweet waters, and casting bottels of glasses to besprinkle the ghests withall, after their comming aboord.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard
The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel
And when they goe abroade, they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt oyles, to be swete at the smelle.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard
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