Get Free Checker

mizzle

[ UK /mˈɪzə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
VERB
  1. rain lightly
    When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant

How To Use mizzle In A Sentence

  • But if (to borrow language from the mint of Gorgias86), if only the attendants will bedew us with a frequent mizzle87 of small glasses, we shall not be violently driven on by wine to drunkenness, but with sweet seduction reach the goal of sportive levity. Symposium
  • She planted potatoes last week and has been praying for a mizzle to moistify her garden.
  • It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel. The Journal to Stella
  • Like, I took the car for the morning newspaper run, due to mizzle. Still damp, still writing
  • The yellow and red leaves are swirling down, the rain mizzles, the soft white sky is soothing after months of harsh sunlight.
  • Even as the drizzle mizzles down relentlessly on the site, it is a truly Arcadian setting.
  • I doubt the terms "woodshore" and "mizzle" pepper Young Adult fiction of the 21st century. Zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth
  • A mizzle, drizzle, haze, what's the difference between fog and mist, etc., etc. Simon Winchester: But the language and the dictionary therefore can almost inadvertently paint a portrait of the society that uses the language. A Back-Story to The Man Who Loved China A Coincidence Most Curious and Telling
  • 'They have ripped it full chisel, they are off licketty-split, they have slid, they have made tracks, they have mizzled -- they have absquatulated and clipped it; _abiit, evasit, crupit_! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • Not raining, just cloud and fog and mizzle, although the weather radar shows Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and western Maine getting drenched. And the gloom abideth forever
View all