Drizzling
['drɪzl]
Definition
(adj.) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops; 'a raw drizzing rain' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drizzle
Editor: Sheldon
Examples
- We reached Louisville after night and, if I remember rightly, in a cold, drizzling rain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the Saturday it rained, a soft drizzling rain that held off at times. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The day had clouded over, and a drizzling rain set in at sunset. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To-night the watering-pot might rest in its niche by the well: a small rain had been drizzling all the afternoon, and still it fell fast and quietly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Sheldon