drizzly

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Recent Examples of drizzly At the Jewish new year, a tour of a historic and humble barrio On a drizzly day last week, ahead of Sheinbaum's inauguration and the start of the Jewish new year, historian Vania Martínez began a tour of the barrio in front of the synagogue, Monte Sinaí, which opened in 1923. Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024 The Whisper Rain Shell’s waterproofing kept SELF’s tester dry on drizzly rainy days, and its sealed seams helped block out both water and wind. Sara Coughlin, SELF, 2 Oct. 2024 Along with Broadchurch, Shetland is the prototypical drizzly British procedural. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024 On a drizzly day in August, this year’s training was well underway. Anna Canny, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for drizzly 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzly
Adjective
  • This is partially because the lungs breathe out moisture in misty breaths.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • His eyes had turned misty at the memory of his mother’s words.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Known for drippy paintings of words, phrases and geometric shapes, Pendleton will show his new paintings Composition and Movement, as well as a new single-channel video work, Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?).
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • This is a newer direction for Devlin, who’s made drippy mirror frames and squiggly lamps, although much of his work does sit solidly in the world of feeling enchanted and otherworldly.
    Natalia Torija, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Los Angeles has received essentially no rainfall in over 10 months, with the driest start to a rainy season on record, parching soils and vegetation and setting the stage for extreme winds to intensify and spread the fires.
    Peter H. Gleick, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2025
  • San Diego has only gotten 0.14 inches of rain since Oct. 1, leading to the driest start of the rainy season since 1850.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Drizzly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzly. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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