sprinkle
IPA: sprˈɪŋkʌɫ
noun
- A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
- A light rain shower.
- An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
- A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
- (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
- (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
- (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.
- (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
Advertisement
Examples of "sprinkle" in Sentences
- Salt was sprinkled in the soup.
- Then sprinkle with the cheese and eat.
- He sprinkled water all over his garden.
- Geminid meteor shower sprinkles night sky.
- The fried onions is sprinkled on top to garnish.
- It's cheap and you sprinkle it around the baseboards.
- After removing the pie from the oven, sprinkle with the cheese.
- The image was sprinkled with the water of the Ganges, and thrown into the pit.
- As the icebergs drift northwards, they sprinkle the minerals through the ocean.