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drizzling

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verb

present participle of drizzle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzling
Adjective
  • On a drizzly fall day, Sarah Reynolds Green gathers a mess of collards, hugging the bouquet with both arms.
    Cynthia R. Greenlee, Bon Appétit, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Throngs of demonstrators marched through the streets of downtown Washington on the drizzly Saturday for the People’s March, organized by a coalition of groups, including the Women’s March.
    Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • One is chock full of dense, drippy fat that will make the meal taste good under almost any circumstance.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Bernhardt, who starts with spray paint on upright canvases, then puts them on the floor and adds watery acrylics, which give her work its drippy panache, chalks it up to plain coincidence, though of course there’s nothing plain about what either of them do.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.
    Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Whether in the misty forests of Costa Rica, the savannas of Kenya, or the rugged Highlands of Scotland, this new model of travel offers more than a vacation.
    Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The fish live in seasonal pools and ponds formed during the rainy season and lay their eggs in the muddy ground.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The beginning of the workweek could be rainy with a 40% chance of precipitation and high near 60.
    Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Drizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzling. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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