Raining lightly

Usage examples of drizzly.

A cool, drizzly wind was blowing in the year 52,435 when Zanna, Barong, Hugh and I took it in turns with our single clumsy shovel, half-melted as its edge had been by nano attack, to dig a place in the rich loam where we might bury Grace.

Then a pair of armored and wheeled tortugaswhich siege devices had apparently been rafted down the river unseen by any sentries on the dark, drizzly nighthad broken down a stretch of the already fire-weakened palisades and entered the fortaleza, and the armed whites and indios contained in them had opened fire with light arquebuses, pistoles, probably some swivel guns, and quite possibly one or two old-fashioned multi-barreled volley guns.

All of the monsters were doing something, none were simply relaxing on that fine, drizzly day.

Foot traffic bustled along the sidewalks, colorful umbrellas and raincoats brightening the otherwise drizzly day.

It was a drizzly day in Mamaroneck, New York, when the chairman of the board had asked for a special meeting.

But on a cold drizzly afternoon when the clouds hung low and the sodden maple leaves fell dismally to the ground, he sensed the blur of movement again as he knelt in meditation, and peering across his workroom, he saw just a nose and some whiskers poking from the hole.

Every last bit of it, good and bad - Marmite, village fetes, country lanes, people saying 'mustn't grumble' and 'I'm terribly sorry but', people apologizing to me when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot-water bottles as a necessity, drizzly Sundays - every bit of it.