drizzle
verb (used without object)
to rain gently and steadily in fine drops; sprinkle.
is drizzling
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present progressiveof drizzle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Then he goes outside after midnight — as firecrackers are going off and rain is drizzling — to jump rope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It is drizzling down the heels of my shoes and is getting clammy.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
To-day it is drizzling, and I must go and lecture my platoon on the use of gas helmets.
From Letters from France by Isaac Alexander Mack
Meanwhile the day has broken, but a fine, cold rain is drizzling down and the swirl of fog below is thicker than ever.
From The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] by Wilhelmine von Hillern
I do not know whether the snow still lies about Twer; here it is all melted, and a cool, gray rain is drizzling down on the sheet of roofs.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
