At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed,sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
1985,Robert Burchfield,The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page137:
Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god hadsprinkled seeds at random on a field[.]
(transitive) Tocover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
The confectionersprinkled the cakes with icing sugar.
2005, Justus Roux,Who's Your Daddy?, page66:
Most of the passengers watched from the enclosed promenade deck, but Sandra found her way to the higher, open promenade where she shivered and watched the city lights fade and the starssprinkle themselves across a dark blue velvet sky.
(intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
having our heartssprinkled from an evil conscience
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2025 March 24, David Hytner, “Reece James bends it like Beckham to help England break down Latvia”, inThe Guardian[1]:
What it was always going to be about was the manner of the victory. Whether there were any signs of Thomas Tuchel getting his messages across,sprinkling his magic.
1893, Edward F. Bigelow (editor andpublisher),The Observer: a Medium of Interchange of Observations for all Students and Lovers of Nature, volume IV, number 4, page 114:
There is no more beautiful object in the still and shady aisles of the wood than a great patch of the deep green hairy cap moss studded and starred by these little roses that are often scattered over it as thickly as the starssprinkle the sky.
April 26th, 1899,Memorial Day Oration of General P. McGlashan, printed in1902 inAddresses delivered before the Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah by that association:
As I laid him back on the litter he threw out his arms and clasped me around my neck, drew me towards him and kissed me, saying: "Colonel, I love you." [...] Unnumbered instances like this might be recounted did the time permit it. They sprinkle the whole four years as the starssprinkle the sky.
2010, Donald E. MacKay,Love Is Stronger Than Death, page91:
[...] she will remember his words and gaze at the stars. One dark night when the starssprinkle the heavens, she would call out to the stars and ask the same questions her benefactor had asked; perhaps she will be favored with answers.
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He decorated the Christmas card with asprinkle of glitter.
1979 December 1, Ellen Brook Davis, “David Brill — In Memoriam”, inGay Community News, volume 7, number19, page 5:
My memory leaves me with a constant and deep burning, my eyes stinging and red from shortsprinkles of tears which have been sneaking up on me for days now.
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