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US
/ˈdɹɪzɫi/
]
[ UK /dɹˈɪzli/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈɪzli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
wet with light rain
a wet drippy day
a sad drizzly day
How To Use drizzly In A Sentence
- It might have been a rather bleak and drizzly evening when the madcap group exploded on stage, fronted by the eccentric Anthony Kiedis.
- The overcast and drizzly weather stretched all the way from Hadrian's Wall to the Shetland Islands, making Scots reach for their umbrellas and cardies rather than parasols and bikinis.
- I think there may have been an usherette at the door wishing us ‘Goodnight’; to be honest half the people from the cinema were a little moist - eyed and incoherent as we pushed out onto the drizzly street.
- The fine drizzly rain synonymous with the Lakes could also change to become more tropical, heavier storms, with water run-off from the land introducing more materials into watercourses, said Dr Sweeting.
- Her gaze shifted to the windows, where a drizzly rain grayed the skies, then settled back on him, the piercing green of her eyes dulled with sorrow. Earl of Durkness
- It's worth spending a dank and drizzly autumn weekend finding out. The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
- a sad drizzly day
- “It was a dull, drizzly Indian-inky day, all the way on the railroad to Keighley, which is a rising wool-manufacturing town, lying in a hollow between hills — not a pretty hollow, but more what the Yorkshire people call a ‘bottom,’ or The Life of Charlotte Bronte
- It was the middle of a foggy, drizzly night, but the featured attraction was a solar eclipse.
- For the second day in a row the moors were swathed in mists first thing in the morning, a sea mist rolling in again to meet them, and the world damp, drizzly and chill.