Crossword clues for drizzled
drizzled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drizzle \Driz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drizzled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Drizzling.] [Prop. freq. of AS. dre['o]san to fall. See
Dreary.]
To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from
the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles;
drizzling drops or rain. ``Drizzling tears.''
--Spenser.
Syn: mizzle, misle.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: drizzle)
Usage examples of "drizzled".
With one arm she cradled his head, while with the other she drizzled drops of water on his parted lips.
The water drizzled slowly into his mouth until she was sure he would choke.
Slowly, the unhappy wails were replaced by choked gulps as nourishment drizzled into the child’s mouth.
Maurice ate a large breakfast as Esmeralda mixed bits of chopped bacon into the saints' food and drizzled it with pan drippings.
Loose soil drizzled from shining sarcophagi of black plates which were beginning to split open even as they wrenched themselves from their shallow socketings in the earth.
The larva hung in that terrible grip, its slack meat like a moon above us that dwindled as we watched, while its rich larval sap drizzled and spattered down to the stone before us.
It split open, presenting us a steamy, fanged mouth that drizzled caustic drool.
Monday sat a little apart, looking like a small storm cloud, and drizzled an occasional tear into her plate.
But more blood drizzled off the hem of that coat, and congealed almost before it hit the snow.
The rest of October and the rest of the winter continued like that, days of steely cold alternating with slightly milder ones that merely dumped or drizzled a chill rain.
The cold rain pasted his hair to his skull and drizzled down the nape of his neck.
Water foamed out of downspouts into nearby drains, drizzled off roofs, puddled in the streets, and overflowed gutters, and because the city was almost entirely dark, the pools and streams looked more like oil than water.
Steam rose from under the Blazer as hot radiator fluid drizzled onto the frozen ground, and the ruined vehicle creaked under the weight of the snowmobile embedded in its hood.
CHAPTER 37 FROM ALTERNATING BRONZE-BALL AND BRONZE-flame finials, from cast panels of arabesques, from darts and twists and frets and scallops and leaves, from griffins and heraldic emblems, black and silver rain dripped and drizzled off the Manheim gate.
Rain that had drizzled suddenly fell by the ton, weight enough to press half the huff out of the wind.