Example Sentences

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Throughout the retrospective, the curators have sprinkled in work by other artists.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024

Pippa said while the contestants are not based on real life, they have "sprinkled" in references and stories that might be familiar.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2023

For years, Wells CEOs spoke with Midwestern lilts and have sprinkled their public events with folksy anecdotes.

From Reuters • Jan. 13, 2020

So in reaching for a handy excuse for their own incompetence, the authorities of Rotherham have sprinkled petrol onto an already incendiary situation.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2014

They would have sprinkled him with incense had that been fashionable at Hawai.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon