sprinkle
/ˈspɹɪŋkəl/ verb B2- To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance). · The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.
- To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it. · The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar.
- To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically. · It sprinkled outside all day long.
- To rain very lightly outside. · It sprinkled very early in the morning.
- To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
- To spread, as if by sprinkling.
He/she/it sprinkles · Past sprinkled · Past participle sprinkled · -ing form sprinkling
Verb forms
- Base form
- sprinkle
- He/she/it
- sprinkles
- Past
- sprinkled
- Past participle
- sprinkled
- -ing form
- sprinkling
From the library
Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds.
A small garden sprinkled over with a scattered eruption of sickly plants separated each of these houses from the street, and was traversed by a narrow pathway, yellowish in colour, and consisting apparently of a mixture of clay and of gravel.
On both sides of the house was a big orchard, one of apple-trees and one of cherry-trees, also showered over with blossoms; and their grass was all sprinkled with dandelions.
Let us shut this one up.” They put the stone back in its place; the abbé sprinkled a little dust over it to conceal the traces of its having been removed, rubbed his foot well on it to make it assume the same appearance as the other, and then, going towards his bed, he removed it from the spot it stood in.
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