Words similar to sprinkling

Example sentences for: sprinkling

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

About halfway between Sagres and Lagos, Salema is regarded as an up-and-coming resort of this stretch, with a lively sprinkling of bars and restaurants, a pleasant beach with fishing boats, and a market.
He also gives us verbs (disturgle, skirkling), a few articles and cardinal numbers, and even a sprinkling of interjections and appellatives.
It is one thing to utter little truisms here and there during one's lifetime, sprinkling them about like sesame seeds on a bagel; it is quite another to make a fetish out of collecting such tripe.
Most of the 130-odd sources are, quite naturally, UK in origin and persuasion, with a fair sprinkling of US periodicals; others looked at include Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Turkey, Hong Kong, and France (for The International Herald Tribune ). Ayto writes well, and his Introduction (actually, to get fussy about it, Foreword or Preface) sets forth clearly the aims and purposes of this collection of neologisms.
The recently published Oxford Thesaurus , by Laurence Urdang, contains thousands of example sentences to illustrate usage, including a sprinkling of quirky specimens, all from the American Edition; these were excised from the British Edition on the grounds that they were distracting