Example sentences for: sprinkling

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

  • Critics respond with a sprinkling of hearty positive reviews, but the majority are gingerly worded negative takes.

  • The Xiamen Museum, housed in Gulangyu’s most striking red-domed building, contains a sprinkling of odd exhibits on its four floors, including printing presses, Tang Dynasty porcelains, wooden rifles, assorted gifts from sister cities around the world, and photographs of the island’s dazzling colonial architecture.

  • Often the poet has a guardian deity adding more dash after the person is fully dressed--refining the coiffure, improving the facial expression, and sprinkling extra grace over the frame.

  • Some praise director Guillermo Del Toro for manipulating Gothic conventions and sprinkling the film with Catholic imagery and allusions to classic films.

  • 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.


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