sprinkling

IPA: sprˈɪŋkɫɪŋ

The action of the verb to sprinkle.
A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
A light shower of rain.
A scattering.

Examples of "sprinkling" in Sentences

Aspersion is the sprinkling of water on the head.
"Your sprinkling is all wrong," he complained next.
He was very generous in sprinkling quotes from all of them.
This sprinkling is analogous to the sprinkled blood of the Passover.
Actually, Alex joined us in sprinkling fish sauce all over her meal tonight.
There was a tin sprinkling-can, quite new, in the tonneau, and we placed our wooden pails beside it and the oatmeal in it.
Sin mingles with our best and holiest performances, and the blood of sprinkling is necessary to procure acceptance to us and our services.
As the blood of sprinkling is represented as speaking to God for us, Heb 12: 24; so here God is represented as speaking to us (Heb 1: 1, 2).
The newspaper said that an attempt had been made to rob the Newcomb place the night before, but that the thieves had apparently secured nothing but a package of oatmeal and a tin sprinkling-can, which they had abandoned on the lawn.