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Recent Examples of drizzly
It was partially restored in the final minutes devoted to scenes from the actual show, staged under the Alexandre III bridge on a drizzly evening.
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Miles Socha, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
On a drizzly morning earlier this year at Preståsen Kanvas-barnehage, one of Mr. Ullmann’s kindergarten programs in south Oslo, children roam around an expansive play yard, building sandcastles under the canopy of a large pine tree.
—Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
At the Jewish new year, a tour of a historic and humble barrio
On a drizzly day last week, ahead of Sheinbaum's inauguration and the start of the Jewish new year, historian Vania Martínez began a tour of the barrio in front of the synagogue, Monte Sinaí, which opened in 1923.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
The Whisper Rain Shell’s waterproofing kept SELF’s tester dry on drizzly rainy days, and its sealed seams helped block out both water and wind.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 2 Oct. 2024
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Miles Socha, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
On a drizzly morning earlier this year at Preståsen Kanvas-barnehage, one of Mr. Ullmann’s kindergarten programs in south Oslo, children roam around an expansive play yard, building sandcastles under the canopy of a large pine tree.
—Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
At the Jewish new year, a tour of a historic and humble barrio
On a drizzly day last week, ahead of Sheinbaum's inauguration and the start of the Jewish new year, historian Vania Martínez began a tour of the barrio in front of the synagogue, Monte Sinaí, which opened in 1923.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
The Whisper Rain Shell’s waterproofing kept SELF’s tester dry on drizzly rainy days, and its sealed seams helped block out both water and wind.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzly
Adjective
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This is partially because the lungs breathe out moisture in misty breaths.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
8 Jan. 2025
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His eyes had turned misty at the memory of his mother’s words.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Known for drippy paintings of words, phrases and geometric shapes, Pendleton will show his new paintings Composition and Movement, as well as a new single-channel video work, Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?).—
Roger Catlin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In most of the U.S., the rainy season comes in spring.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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The National Weather Service says 1.27 inches of precipitation has fallen at San Diego International Airport since the rainy season began on October 1.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Drizzly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzly. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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