Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzling
Adjective
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Tuesday is expected to be a drizzly day in metro Detroit but temperatures will remain fairly similar in the 50s until Thursday.—
Darcie Moran,
Detroit Free Press,
18 Nov. 2024 -
But the fact is Brissett didn’t light it up (3-for-7 for 17 yards spread out over three series) in the Patriots’ 14-13 loss to the Eagles on a drizzly night at Gillette Stadium.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
21 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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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
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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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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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Los Angeles has received essentially no rainfall in over 10 months, with the driest start to a rainy season on record, parching soils and vegetation and setting the stage for extreme winds to intensify and spread the fires.—
Peter H. Gleick,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2025
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San Diego has only gotten 0.14 inches of rain since Oct. 1, leading to the driest start of the rainy season since 1850.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Drizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzling. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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