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Recent Examples of drizzly
The Grinch’s arrival on a drizzly day sparked laughs and plenty of photo ops and video recording for loved ones with the sassy character, while the playful chaos of sharing fries with more staff than anticipated made the tasting feel like a true holiday gathering.
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Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
On drizzly days, with skies hanging low, the stones resemble ladders to nowhere.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
That Sunday was a chilly, drizzly day.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 14 Nov. 2025
Over a hundred people turned out for Jack London Square’s Halloween Día de los Muertos Family Fun Fest on Sunday, which lent vibrant color to a drizzly gray day.
—Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
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Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
On drizzly days, with skies hanging low, the stones resemble ladders to nowhere.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
That Sunday was a chilly, drizzly day.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 14 Nov. 2025
Over a hundred people turned out for Jack London Square’s Halloween Día de los Muertos Family Fun Fest on Sunday, which lent vibrant color to a drizzly gray day.
—Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzly
Adjective
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To the left of Castor and Pollux lies the constellation Cancer, the crab, the core of which plays host to the 100-strong stellar population of the Beehive Cluster (M44), which is visible as a small, misty patch of light on moonless nights.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Other images similarly mix the romantic and the mundane, with glamorous students in front of kitschy backdrops of misty woodlands or positioned between towering candelabras.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Austin had a particularly itchy and drippy cedar fever season to start the year.—
Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Mar. 2026
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Asymmetrical, drippy French tips are a fun vibe to try for this holiday.—
Kara Jillian Brown,
InStyle,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The beetles take advantage of the fact that the construction workers who finished the house just a few months earlier miscalculated and left too much space between the doors and the ground, failing to consider insects or the rainy season.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Fire trucks lined up outside a funeral home in Chicago’s southwest suburbs on a gray and rainy Tuesday morning for the funeral of Michael Altman, a Chicago firefighter who died while working to put out a Rogers Park fire earlier this month.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Drizzly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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