Sentence examples for mizzle from inspiring English sources

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The word 'mizzle' is not considered to be a standard English word and is typically not used in written English. It is, however, an English dialect word that is used to mean a combination of mist and drizzle, usually describing a light rain. Example: The mizzle was coming down steadily all morning.

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mizzle

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To rain in very fine drops.

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Di's drips with water, a perfect Cornish mizzle despite the sunny day.

Of these Bairstow – suddenly – has been the most arresting after his stunning innings of 41 in Cardiff, which briefly overshadowed the mizzle and the plummeting temperatures.

Some are calling this year's race the "Pour of Britain" and until the sun came out as Caerphilly was approached, the 110 miles were shrouded in cloud, with a strong westerly driving hanging sheets of heavy mizzle past disgruntled sheep and bedraggled spectators.

I look out into the grey mizzle and wonder again what a terrorist would want with a few oddballs pottering around the moors.

Rock-paper-scissors? 4.11pm BST "The debate on whether its mizzle or drizzle can be resolved at the Snoop Dogg Weather Channel," reckons Stephen Eckermann.

"I think the arc is soft (Irish), mist, haar, mizzle, drizzle, light rain, downpour, stair rods and bloody miserable.

Even the rain is rude: "It's raining, sort of, the air pilled with a dangling, brokedick mizzle".

Beneath umbrellas of cashmere and cotton they scampered away their lives, eluding the damp mizzle of testosterone.

A battle fought through the grey drizzle of a west country dawn is illuminated by "firebrands that gilded the falling mizzle and flashed on the blade of sword and heron-tufted war spear".

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My father goes, "Have you heard of the word mizzled?" "Mizzled?", we said.

My mother, who is half Irish and has a streak of sly Irish wit about her, solved that mystery when she exclaimed "The Holy Alien!" Pelting rain and sudden squalls, rain that drizzles and mizzles -- Ireland is one of the few countries where such weather is shrugged off, hardly a deterrent to wildflower adventures.

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