Crossword-Solution: SPRINKLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sprinkling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Sprinkle |
| Sprinkling | n. | The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. |
| Sprinkling | n. | A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow. |
| Sprinkling | n. | Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like drops. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SPRINKLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Small amount of rain | 1 answer |
| Sparsely distributed amount | 1 answer |
| Watering. | 3 answers |
| Small portion | 17 answers |
| admixture | 32 answers |
| Sprinkle. | 36 answers |
| Pinch | 47 answers |
| Minute particle | 54 answers |
| Baptism | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPRINKLING (5)
And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's; for there he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch.
The better parties, the ones for generals, for movers and for shakers, for digni- taries and others of immediate importance, are graced with a generous sprinkling of strikingly beautiful women.
Into this they lowered the chest, covering it over with earth and sprinkling dead grass, twigs and leaves above it, that it might present to a searcher no sign that the ground had recently been disturbed.
Among the talkers, was Stryver, of the King’s Bench Bar, far on his way to state promotion, and, therefore, loud on the theme: broaching to Monseigneur, his devices for blowing the people up and exterminating them from the face of the earth, and doing without them: and for accomplishing many similar objects akin in their nature to the abolition of eagles by sprinkling salt on the tails of the race.
About four o’clock, the soil, generally composed of a thick mud mixed with petrified wood, changed by degrees, and it became more stony, and seemed strewn with conglomerate and pieces of basalt, with a sprinkling of lava.
Quotes with SPRINKLING (3)
She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the one bright, marvelous thing-he wanted more than the world, but didn't deserve. However much he was tortured for her sake, however much blood he had spilled to protect her, the bruises to his body and the thrashings to his sanity, it would never be enough to make a wretch like him worthy of such a miracle.
When scorching passion only leaves ashes of unfulfilled dreams, hope may entice the sprinkling magic of our imagination into livening up the footlights on a new stage of life. ("Taken for a ride")
What appears most disquieting to me in isolation is the dilemma of how to use time. There is either too much or too little of it; we either live inside painfully contracting horizons, or feel ourselves isolated in the vastness of space. I seem to have lived with the palm of my hand balanced on the tip of a knife, writing what in theory I would call the Preface to a Future Book. And the relation of time to creation should always appear like that, a ratio that describes the ful…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2019).