Hardly a downpour

Usage examples of drizzle.

Mid-morning, Andi drove through an off-and-on drizzle to keep appointments with Alison Simpson and William Tyson.

They made their way in the drizzle, through the greasy, slippery streets ashine with the lights that fell from door and window, Rabecque following closely with the horses.

I drizzled honey on a piece of the leathery flatbread and rolled it around a little white cheese, cramming my mouth full while she was busy talking.

The weather changed during the night, and the wind went up into the southeast bringing with it the thin cold drizzling guti rain.

And albeit there was little comfort marching through the drizzling murk of night towards that fortress of evil name, yet was Lord Juss glad at the rain, since it favoured surprise, and on surprise hung all their hopes.

A woman wearing a white headcloth was selling piles of the laciest pancakes Sabin had ever seen with some kind of honey syrup drizzled over them.

Corbett or anyone else should be abroad, for it was a drizzling cold November night, and the streets were muddy, as only Winnipeg streets in the old days could be--none of your light-minded, fickle-hearted, changeable mud that is mud to-day and dust to-morrow, but the genuine, original, brush-defying, soap-and-water-proof, north star, burr mud, blacker than lampblack, stickier than glue!

Each of the black blocks was five thousand or more men, clustering right now under ground sheets out in the drizzle, perspiring from heat and nerves, not a one of them with the vantage point of Luis, who looked down on the sheer weight of the red blocks across from their force, the Reds packed in, waiting, ready.

Lamancha saw through the drizzle three stags moving at a gentle trot to the south--up-wind, for in the corrie the eddies were coming oddly.

He had shown his admiration for her artistic prowess by making love to her at the base of this very fountain, beneath the midnight blue sky of a varsha night, as a gentle drizzle fell on their undulating bodies.

It was planting time and the Walpi celebrated their rain-feast but they brought only a mere misty drizzle.

It was a little wanner than it had been and although it drizzled the wind was almost gentle.

He reached and activated a dozen pressure pads, cutting the light and glare, and then he shook his control pistol at the monitors and in a drizzle of light blobs eight or ten of the screens came on.

He set off with a spring, and in a moment was flying through the air, almost out of the door of the shed, the upper half of which was open, showing outside the drizzling rain, the filthy yard, the cattle standing disconsolate against the black cartshed, and at the back of all the grey-green wall of the wood.

They had shed their chain-mail hauberks and quilted gambesons, and even their shirtsbare to the waist and seemingly immune to the cold drizzle and icy winds.