The word "sprinkles" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to small, decorative pieces of sugar or other substances that are added to cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts. For example, "I topped my cupcake with colorful sprinkles for a festive touch."
Nuts, chunks of chocolate, broken biscuits, sprinkles etc, which bring an alien crunchiness and introduce elements that melt at wildly differing speeds.
Lovely ladies but, when it comes to fashion, their main consideration is something with "a sense of fun", and while I'm all for fun in regards to, I don't know, sprinkles on a cupcake, I'm less thrilled by their interpretation of the word, which tends to mean superfluous frills, strange collars and, as you say, oddly shaped coats.
They are deep-fried waffles, topped with icing and multicoloured sprinkles (see photo).
She spent some years in Chicago and sprinkles her speeches with English phrases.Financial executives around the world increasingly view Europe as a single market.
Much hangs on the outcome.The EU sprinkles a total of almost €3 billion ($3.5 billion) a year, in grants and loans, from Morocco to Jordan, more than it gives to the former Soviet Union and almost as much as America ladles out to Egypt and Israel.
He fills in both the back story and the fore story: how China came to be in the mess that it was in after the Cultural Revolution, for example, and how Deng's reforms relentlessly turned China into the economic powerhouse of today.Mr Caryl also sprinkles his fast-paced narrative with plenty of striking details.
As well as providing an introduction, Mr Kurlansky adds his own commentary and sprinkles in the occasional modern reference point: alongside the 1940 Christmas dinner menu from the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, for example, the 2007 menu from the same hotel is provided for comparison.
Hides a bottle under a cylinder; can't get it to disappear; tries a new wand, sprinkles the dust, dances about; seizes the cylinder, sticks his arm right through, pulls out a string of flags, a bunch of flowers, a live white wriggling rabbit, a pair of knickerbockers, the bottle!
As is his custom, he sprinkles his prose with lucid and arresting examples; he can be hilarious, with a pointed phrase, here lambasting the post-modernists, there the creationists.
They are the reason why Mr Gore sprinkles his speeches with calls for a thorough reform of the campaign-finance system; and also the reason why some Republicans think it might make sense to put John McCain on the Bush ticket.
He aims to consolidate a business that has long been scattered like sprinkles on a cake.
