How to Use drizzly in a Sentence

drizzly

adjective
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  • At times, his arm looked as loose and liquid as the drizzly skies.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Either way, a sellout crowd left in a sour mood on a cold and drizzly night.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Saturday was a cloudy, damp and drizzly day across North Texas.
    — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Which brings us back to Paris on this drizzly November night.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Getting dressed for a drizzly fall day feels a little more glamorous with a shiny new trench coat.
    — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Oct. 2022
  • If the cold air arrives too late or the moisture leaves too early, the city will just see drizzly Seattle-like rain.
    — Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Antti was shot through the nasal cavity by a Red Guard marksman on a drizzly evening in Tampere.
    — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • McWilliams' father, dressed in a three-piece suit, waited 11 hours in line on a drizzly day to get money out of a bank in Belgrade.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
  • This soup, by the way, may be the perfect complement to a drizzly Seattle winter day.
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The pedophile Dublin priest who built a swimming pool in his back garden—in drizzly Ireland!—so that little boys could swim with him.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The pair arrived in Odessa, near the border with New Mexico, on April 15, to cold, drizzly weather.
    — James Rundle, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • On a drizzly night at Yankee Stadium, with the temperatures in the 50s, the ball still flew.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2022
  • On a drizzly day in June, Bryce Wrigley gave me a panoramic tour of his seventeen hundred acres via Zoom.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022
  • On Monday morning, the attendees circulating on the lawn did not seem to mind the drizzly cold or the threat of Covid.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The text streaks from Sophie’s memories of her childhood in Hungary to her drab days in drizzly Paris.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The next April, in opposite conditions (cold and drizzly), Berman ran much faster.
    — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2019
  • On a recent cold and drizzly Friday, dozens of vendors lined up at UN Plaza, spreading their wares out on the brick sidewalk.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Though the June day was gray and drizzly, the single-color planting southeast of London glowed as if bathed in moonlight.
    — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 13 July 2022
  • So bust out your melanger and add your seed butter one small scoop at a time, then conch for 8–24 hours, yielding honest to God, silky smooth, drizzly chocolate.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Snowy days warrant waterproof boots just as much as drizzly ones.
    — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2022
  • One year earlier, a different attempt at a bike share had failed in this hilly, drizzly city.
    — Mark Harris, WIRED, 14 June 2018
  • On Monday morning, crews with Utah Disaster Kleenup were working the scene in cold, drizzly rain.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 May 2022
  • The reggae influence on Blue Lines sounds like sunshine filtered through the drizzly gloom of English skies.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The last of the lovely autumn weather will soon slide away, and next up on the calendar is November, usually dank and drizzly in this part of the world.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The cool, drizzly morning that greeted the Bay Area on Friday is expected to propel a weather shift through the weekend, but don’t get used to it.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Related Articles The look was joyful, romantic and added a blast of warmth to a dark, drizzly day.
    — Samantha Conti, WWD, 5 July 2024
  • This delicious and hearty soup is a must-try Andean favorite, perfect for a cold and drizzly day around Bogotá.
    — Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Have no fear: The Onesource is water-resistant, so drizzly weather won't fry it.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2022
  • While Boston can be drizzly in the spring, the showers summon breathtaking floral blooms.
    — Molly Hanson, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The vibe keeps shifting, ricocheting between a chic Parisian Olympics and a drizzly Wimbledon that looks nothing like Challengers.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 3 July 2024

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