besprinkle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- unbesprinkled adjective
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
Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive—as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her.
From Louisa Pallant by James, Henry
This same For�t d'Orleans, one of those wild-woods which so plentifully besprinkle France, has a sad and doleful memory in the traditions of the druidical inhabitants of a former day.
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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 Dodd, Anna Bowman
It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.
From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Glyn, Elinor
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