Sprinkled

Examples

• I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If a wire is passed through a card and a strong current is sent through the wire, iron filings will, when sprinkled upon the card, arrange themselves in definite directions (Fig. 227). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The half-dark waters were sprinkled with lovely bubbles of swaying lights, the launch did not look far off. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Prawns fresh from the sea sprinkled with lime juice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love, make the flame blaze the brighter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The user was expected to sprinkle the liquid over the fire just as salt is sprinkled from a saltcellar over meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There were a few customers, drinking or not drinking, standing or seated, sprinkled about. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The solution is then sprinkled on the fire by the operator. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Under exceptionally unfavorable circumstances, such as hot pantries, a little of the dry acid should be sprinkled on the top of the vessel or preserve pot. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The top of the meat was sprinkled with sugar and saltpetre. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As a disinfectant the solution should be sprinkled freely around the place or places to be disinfected. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I sprinkled water on her face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This apartment is always in a fume of smoke and liberally sprinkled with beer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Bella sprinkled him with kisses instead of milk, but gave him a little of that article to drink; and he gradually revived under her caressing care. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Estella waved a blue flag, and I waved a red one, and Miss Havisham waved one sprinkled all over with little gold stars, out at the coach-window. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Rena