drizzly
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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ITHACA, N.Y.—On a drizzly Thursday, Cornell University students wandered into consulting recruitment sessions, hustled up the slopes to midterms and listened to a Pulitzer-winning fiction writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Jones's interest in the natural world began with birds, but his passion for peatland was ignited at age eight during a drizzly visit to Cors Caron, a national nature reserve near Tregaron.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
On a drizzly morning, a dozen of the wealthiest kids in the world convene in an Austin Airbnb to consider a question: “Why do you think it is your parents want you to work?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
“Pretty cool,” Chesney said after a drizzly two hours which saw players on both sides of the ball make big plays to fire up their respective sidelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
But one day—April the twenty-second, a drizzly Monday, it had been—he ran ahead of them all, the red mud slooching up through the holes in the bottom of his sneakers.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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