Example sentences for: sprinkled

How can you use “sprinkled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In fact, punchy ripostes are sprinkled so heavily throughout Simon's comedies that people have been led to believe that he writes the gags first, then fleshes out the rest of the play around them.

  • "While some were out dodging the draft, John McCain was volunteering for active service in Vietnam," Grooms reminded the audience--which was sprinkled with purple- and orange-haired teen-agers as well as vets.

  • The president sprinkled the word "family" throughout his speech and devoted one-sixth of the text to a section titled "Support for American Families."

  • The Douro Valley extending along the river east toward the Spanish border is one of the most attractive regions in Portugal, sprinkled with small villages, impressive quintas (agricultural estates), and beautifully terraced vineyards that dramatically hug the river as it courses through the valley.

  • (The result, predictably, is that the magic words "community" and "civil society" are sprinkled liberally now in all proposals for research grants, as in "The East Asian Balance of Power--The Neglected Role of Civil Society."


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