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• n  a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
  a sprinkling of grey at his temples
• n  a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
• n  the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
• n  the act of sprinkling or splashing water
  baptized with a sprinkling of holy water
• v  distribute loosely
• v  cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
• v  rain gently
• v  scatter with liquid; wet lightly

• There are a sprinkling of gay bars, and many dance clubs set aside one night each week for gay customers.
• There is also a sprinkling of housewives: Tassajara is the world's first Zen monastery to admit women.
• His instant-noodle recipe included not only flour, palm oil and MSG, butmetaphorically, at leasta sprinkling of hope, too.

• scattering
• sprinkle
• aspersion
• sparge
• scatter
• dot
• dust
• disperse
• splash
• splosh
• spit
• spatter
• patter
• pitter-patter
• besprinkle

News & Articles

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• Oak Park Conservatory provides kits to plant seeds of knowledge
  OAK PARK — About 35 kindergarten pupils in the co-teaching classroom of Aaron Jerkatis and Karolyn Serio at Horace Mann Elementary School gather on a rug and read the subtitles aloud as they watch a short video titled “How Seeds Travel.” A few minutes later, student Maeve Marzec tests how tick seeds are carried on animal fur by sprinkling some onto Beanie Babies at a hands-on station. At another ...
  June 14, 2013 - Oak Park Leaves

Quotes

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• Brad Bryant in USA Today
  This was before they had automatic sprinkling systems. We did a lot of that,Brad said. "We moved sprinklers in the middle of the night and mowed the greens and helped mow the fairways. And it was a pretty cool time."
• Ben Barnes in WISC
  We've aged-up the characters because the actors have grown up since filming the first one,Barnes said. "There's a sprinkling of romance in the film which is not in the book, but I think it's all part and parcel of making a version of this...
• Hugh Laurie in Minneapolis Star Tribune
  What drew me, and what's drawing them, is a stunning script,Laurie said. "It could have been a Latvian circus piece. It didn't really matter in that regard. It's sort of like sprinkling bread crumbs. Actors will flock to stunning pieces of...