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How to use sprinkle in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Sprinkle means to cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance). Example: “The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.”

Examples of sprinkle by meaning

verbTo cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).

  • The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.

verbTo cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.

  • The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar.
  • Most of the passengers watched from the enclosed promenade deck, but Sandra found her way to the higher, open promenade where she shivered and watched the city lights fade and the stars sprinkle themselves across a dark blue velvet sky.2005, Justus Roux, Who's Your Daddy?, page 66

verbTo drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.

  • It sprinkled outside all day long.

verbTo rain very lightly outside.

  • It sprinkled very early in the morning.

nounA light covering with a sprinkled substance.

  • He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
  • My memory leaves me with a constant and deep burning, my eyes stinging and red from short sprinkles of tears which have been sneaking up on me for days now.1979 December 1, Ellen Brook Davis, “David Brill — In Memoriam”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 5

More sentences with sprinkle

  • Pat crushed up a package of birthday cake Oreos and sprinkled them over birthday cake ice cream.From the entry birthday cake
  • She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.From the entry cornmeal
  • I sprinkled little flakes into the fish tank for the guppies to eat.From the entry fish tank
  • She likes to sprinkle hot chocolate on her ice cream.From the entry hot chocolate
  • He had a double ice cream cone, with sprinkles.From the entry sprinkles
  • The lifeguards were mainly Aussies, rough drinkers who delighted in foul-mouthed utterings sprinkled with Aussie slang.2022, Kenny Maule, “Early Summer 1969: A Stout, Wee Hut …”, in All Summer Long: A Cornish Beach Boy, Market Harborough, Leicestershire…. From the entry overmorrow
  • She slid a blue mini cupcake with green and teal sprinkles my way.2021, Josh Lanyon, Bell, Book and Scandal: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, →ISBN. From the entry cupcake
  • Sprinkle it all over." She nodded at the bowl with the cinnamon, sugar and butter crumble.2021, Sasha Summers, chapter 12, in The Rancher’s Forever Family (Harlequin Special Edition; 2838), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Special…. From the entry gooey
  • Spread out four bread and butter pickle coins on top, and sprinkle with onion.2020, Evan Bloom, Rachel Levin, Eat Something, page 76. From the entry coin
  • Help children sprinkle a bit of glitter on each glue dot.2019, Ann Dickinson Degenhard, Celebrating the Lectionary® for Preschool and Kindergarten, page 8. From the entry glue dot
  • Maybe go nuts with a sprinkle of sea salt and a crack of black pepper.2017, Hollie Newton, How to Grow: A guide for gardeners who can't garden yet, →ISBN. From the entry faffy
  • Sprinkle and Stephens’s ecosex workshops and actions are laboratories for the transformation of subjectivity.2017, “Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens”, in w: Documenta. From the entry ecosex
  • Our safety briefing this morning was sprinkled with his colorful Arkansas-born sayings.2017, Mary Emerick, “Burning the Prairies”, in Fire in the Heart: A Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Wildfire, New York, N.Y.: Arcade…. From the entry whatever melts your butter
  • Sprinkle with a thick layer of hagelslag (the De Ruijter brand is the best) and eat immediately.2016, Michael Zee, “Ontbijt: A Dutch Breakfast”, in SymmetryBreakfast: Cook, Love, Share, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, section 11 (Not…. From the entry hagelslag
  • These cakepops are flavoured with chocolate and orange, and decorated with chocolate strands and sugar sprinkles.2012, Abigail Wheatley, “[Little cakes] Chocolate orange cakepops”, in Little Cakes and Cookies to Bake, London: Usborne Publishing Ltd.…. From the entry cakepop
  • The priest sprinkled a handful of token soil on to the coffin lid.2012 [1987], Rupert Thomson, Dreams of Leaving, reprint edition, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry spadeloads
  • But so would you, if you had turbo-charged sprinkles and a woowoo-ing cherry on your head.2011, Steve Cleverley, “Section 11”, in Vincent Bechet, Trevor White, editor, Moshling Collector's Guide, illustrated edition, Scholastic…. From the entry scrumptilicious
  • But it is pink leaning toward red when sprinkled on food.2010 October 19, Mark Bitterman, Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 308. From the entry kala namak
  • Lift each piadina onto a baking tray, drizzle with garlic oil (if using) and sprinkle with rosemary.2009, Pam Talimanidis, À La Grecque: Our Greek Table, Prahran, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry piadina
  • Gild the entire outside with beaten egg yolk, and sprinkle it with grated parmesan.2008, Ivan P. Day, Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850, page 98. From the entry gild
  • Sprinkle them with salt and pepper and add two tablespoonfuls of butter.2008, May E. Southworth, Midnight Feasts, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry zephyrette
  • Sprinkled over a cookie and sandwiched around creamy ice cream makes for sheer bliss!2007, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Cookies!, New Holland Publishers (UK), archived from the original on 17 Sep 2016, page 96. From the entry hundreds and thousands
  • Turn the heat up to medium-high, add the quinoa, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.2007, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food, page 560. From the entry quinoa
  • Its ruff is black sprinkled with white hairs and its bib is white.2005, Eskandar Firouz, “Mammals of Iran”, in The Complete Fauna of Iran, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry ruff
  • Sprinkle a portion of berries over the whipped cream and around the cookie.2000, Pam Anderson, How to Cook Without a Book: Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry pizzelle
  • Sprinkle partly cooked omelette with onion and capsicum mixture, cheese, cabanossi and olives.2000, Food, People, and Technology: An Integrated Approach to Home Economics: Book 2, 2nd edition, page 205. From the entry cabanossi
  • Sprinkle the ground nutmeg-onion-javitri mixture, zafrani and a few drops of milk evenly on the top.1993, Philip Thangam, Flavours from India, page 22. From the entry zafrani
  • When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.19th century (quoted 1977), Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry salamander
  • Place the halushky in a serving dish, sprinkle generously with melted or browned butter, and toss gently.1977, Savella Stechishin, “Breaded Veal Kotlety”, in Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, 9th edition, Winnipeg, Man.: Trident Press Ltd.…. From the entry halushky
  • Each masterpiece in a fluted silver dish, silver candies sprinkled on the pink whipped cream!1936 August–September, Pearl Norton Swet, “The Medici Boots”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and…. From the entry tortoni
  • Sprinkle chopped candied orange peel, cover with another slice of bread.1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 142. From the entry apple butter
  • She settled on the Chai Frappé Burst, a frozen, blended concoction with whipped cream, boba and cinnamon sugar sprinkles.2024 September 16, Priya Krishna, “The Customized Drink Is Out of Control”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry boba
  • Top it with generous amount of Dutch chocolate sprinkles.2021 March 15, Amber Sun, Rice Cake Bonanze - 180+ Recipes Minimal Cooking Maximum Flavor, Amber Sun, →ISBN. From the entry dutch chocolate

Meaning of sprinkle

  1. verb To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
  2. verb To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
  3. verb To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.

Full definition of sprinkle

Questions about sprinkle in a sentence

How do you use sprinkle in a sentence?
Sprinkle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.”
What is a short sentence with sprinkle?
“It sprinkled outside all day long.”
What does sprinkle mean?
Sprinkle means to cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprinkle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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