Example Sentences

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"We'll fool them this mizzly morn," he said.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert

Now, take one of our London winter days—which you like—a regular keen frost, or a yaller fog, or a soaking rain, or one of those cold, mizzly, clinging, go-through-your-very-marrow sort of days.

From Friends I Have Made by Fenn, George Manville

They had been floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour.

From Youth, a Narrative by Conrad, Joseph

It never got red and shiny like Auntie Louie's face, or hot and rough like Auntie Emmeline's, or wet and mizzly like Auntie Edie's.

From The Tree of Heaven by Sinclair, May