Example Sentences

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It is drizzling down the heels of my shoes and is getting clammy.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The cold sleet is drizzling down with that gentle regularity, which betokens a duration of four-and-twenty hours at least; the damp hangs upon the house-tops and lamp-posts, and clings to you like an invisible cloak. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles

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 Hillern, Wilhelmine von

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 Francke, Kuno

To-day it is drizzling, and I must go and lecture my platoon on the use of gas helmets.

From Letters from France by Mack, Isaac Alexander