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Recent Examples of drizzly
On a drizzly fall day, Sarah Reynolds Green gathers a mess of collards, hugging the bouquet with both arms.
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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
Guests sipped espresso martinis and shimmied to a band performing camp classics from the Pointer Sisters to Tina Turner before heading off into the typically drizzly London night.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2024
They’re also made of water-resistant material that’s perfect for drizzly days.
—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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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
Guests sipped espresso martinis and shimmied to a band performing camp classics from the Pointer Sisters to Tina Turner before heading off into the typically drizzly London night.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2024
They’re also made of water-resistant material that’s perfect for drizzly days.
—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzly
Adjective
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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
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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
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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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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
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Recent urban expansion and years of inadequate rainy seasons have significantly increased human-wildlife conflict in the area.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2025
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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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“Drizzly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzly. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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