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drizzling

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verb

present participle of drizzle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzling
Adjective
  • Downtown is drizzly and deserted, just me and the ungulate locking eyes across a hotel parking lot, two fish out of water.
    Dan Rubinstein, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Thursday will likely dry out again, though it’s slated to be a dreary, drizzly day, albeit with slightly warmer temperatures rising from the 30s on Wednesday to the low 40s by Friday.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • This is a newer direction for Devlin, who’s made drippy mirror frames and squiggly lamps, although much of his work does sit solidly in the world of feeling enchanted and otherworldly.
    Natalia Torija, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • At daybreak on a misty-blue Wednesday, a herd of cows and bulls are horseplaying on a South Florida prairie when a tractor roars to life, hoisting in its jaws a hay bale as golden as the sun.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Reverence and awe for the remote islands, rolling hills, and misty mountain peaks are the subjects of songs, poems, and great literature.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Recent urban expansion and years of inadequate rainy seasons have significantly increased human-wildlife conflict in the area.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) will conduct tests this rainy season to determine whether the projects are improving as much as expected.
    Courtney Heath, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Drizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzling. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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