SPRINKLE in a Sentence
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46 example sentences for SPRINKLE, such as:
1. He sprinkled vinegar on his fish and chips.
2. It had obliged the muzhiks, but had shed a mere sprinkling for the barin.
3. You can remove a red wine stain from a carpet by sprinkling salt over it.
4. The sprinkling, and, indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice.
5. Before sprinkling the dried herbs into the stew, they first pulverize them into a fine powder.
2. It had obliged the muzhiks, but had shed a mere sprinkling for the barin.
3. You can remove a red wine stain from a carpet by sprinkling salt over it.
4. The sprinkling, and, indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice.
5. Before sprinkling the dried herbs into the stew, they first pulverize them into a fine powder.
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Meanings and Examples of SPRINKLE
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sprinkle
n. a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
v. distribute loosely
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1 She ordered supper to be brought, herself unpacked their things, and herself helped to make the beds, and did not even forget to sprinkle them with Persian powder.
2 Bid her haste and sprinkle river water over her body, and bring with her the beasts ordained for expiation: so let her come: and thou likewise veil thy brows with a pure chaplet.
3 Yet, as always happens at such junctures, there were also present a score of brazen individuals who had succeeded in NOT losing their presence of mind, even though they constituted a mere sprinkling.
4 It had obliged the muzhiks, but had shed a mere sprinkling for the barin.
5 Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves.
6 Then Nestor began with washing his hands and sprinkling the barley meal, and he offered many a prayer to Minerva as he threw a lock from the heifer's head upon the fire.
7 The moon shone bright; a sprinkling of snow covered the ground, and I reflected that she might, possibly, have taken it into her head to walk about the garden, for refreshment.
8 Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling," replied De Bracy; "but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light.
9 The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.
10 We wondered who was sprinkling burning coal dust upon the floor, for we saw drops of red twinkling on the stones around us.
11 And to such a length was this bad system carried, that in the very greatest army only the smallest sprinkling of infantry was to be found.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII.
12 I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down, and a sprinkling of bark; so I knowed the river had begun to rise.
13 From the many firings starting toward them, it looked as if they would merely succeed in making a great sprinkling of corpses on the grass between their former position and the fence.
14 The sprinkling, and, indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice.
15 Aeneas makes entrance, and sprinkling his body with fresh water, plants the bough full in the gateway.
Example Sentence:
1 Before sprinkling the dried herbs into the stew, they first pulverize them into a fine powder.
2 A few years ago, my boyfriend Sean was fined while spinning fire in a deserted open concrete area amidst the sprinkling of light rain.
3 You can remove a red wine stain from a carpet by sprinkling salt over it.
4 He sprinkled vinegar on his fish and chips.