besprinkle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of besprinkle
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at be-, sprinkle
Example Sentences
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
To besprinkle the walking Englishmen as they came within range with a shower of circulars announcing that at "midi, chez Nigaud, il y aura un dejeuner chaud."
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
She had still to bring away luggage from Maienthal, to besprinkle her friendships, and once more to set foot in the magic circle of her beloved teacher; and had, therefore, gone off.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
And when they goe abroade, they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt oyles, to be swete at the smelle.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another theatre faced the square, gay with prismatic signs and besprinkled with electric lights.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
The spiders had now spread their curious mathematical webs over the pales and fences, and they were rendered conspicuous by the moisture with which the fog had besprinkled them.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
Above her, ruddy Mars and silvery Jupiter blazed in splendor ineffable against a background of utterly indescribable blackness—a background thickly besprinkled with dimensionless points of dazzling brilliance which were the stars.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
His soul fastened itself now on the after-flora of his love, the Agnola besprinkled by Zeusel.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.
Then, he drew together a great heap of crisp shavings and slathers, plentifully besprinkling it with what remained in the can.
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
There were several spots upon the white linen shirt, besprinkling the plaits upon the bosom, and others upon the sleeves; also the cheeks of the youth showed a drop or two on their pallid ground.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
Before, the boy never bothered the sailors in this playful and light work; nay, he took an active part, besprinkling them with water and laughingly running away, when they threatened to pour water over him.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
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