sprinkle1 verbsprinkle2 noun
sprinklesprin‧kle1 /ˈsprɪŋkəl/ ●○○ verb 
WORD ORIGINsprinkle1
Origin:
1300-1400 Perhaps from Middle Dutch sprenkelenVERB TABLE
sprinkle
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | sprinkle |
| he, she, it | sprinkles | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | sprinkled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have sprinkled |
| he, she, it | has sprinkled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had sprinkled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will sprinkle |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have sprinkled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am sprinkling |
| he, she, it | is sprinkling | |
| you, we, they | are sprinkling | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was sprinkling |
| you, we, they | were sprinkling | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been sprinkling |
| he, she, it | has been sprinkling | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been sprinkling |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be sprinkling |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been sprinkling |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Sprinkle the cheese over the beans.
- Sprinkle the fish with lemon juice and herbs.
- Reagan sprinkled his conversations with phrases from famous Americans.
- But ironically, each team is sprinkled with players poached from the other.
- Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.
- Set a cup of water on the top shelf or sprinkle the newspapers lightly with water.
- Spoon a quarter of the peppers into the middle of each pastry round, sprinkle a little marjoram on top and season.
- Sure enough, it was sprinkled with several dozen small white specks.
- Their actions, setting and dialogue are sprinkled with touchstones of gay life.
Longman Language Activatorto make something possible
to make liquid or a substance flow steadily out of a container, by making the container lean to one side: pour something into/out of something: · She poured some milk into a glass.· Dan picked up the bucket and poured the sand out of it.pour something on/over/into something: · Pour the garlic sauce over the hot chicken pieces.pour in/out: · Gradually pour in the sherry and the stock.· Would you pour out the tea?
to accidentally make a liquid or substance come out of a container: · Careful - you'll spill it!spill something on/over/into something: · Someone had spilled red wine all over the carpet.· A tanker has run aground, spilling 60,000 gallons of oil into the sea.
to make a container empty by pouring out everything inside it: · Paul emptied the glass and washed it.· Could you empty the wastebasket - it's getting pretty full.empty something into/onto/over something: · She emptied the contents of the tin into a pan.· We crept up behind him and emptied the bucket of water over his head.
to pour or put a liquid or substance in small amounts onto something, especially food, so that the surface is thinly covered: sprinkle something on/over something: · Sprinkle the cheese over the beans.sprinkle something with something: · Sprinkle the fish with lemon juice and herbs.
to pour something out of a container by turning it upside down: tip something into/out of/onto something: · She weighed out the flour and tipped it into the bowl.
to pour a liquid in small amounts over something, especially food - used especially in cooking instructions: drizzle something over something: · Drizzle a little French dressing over the salad.drizzle something with something: · Slice the strawberries and drizzle them with the liqueur.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
The book is liberally sprinkled with clichés.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1 The book is liberally sprinkled with clichés. (=put small pieces of cheese over/on something)· Sprinkle the cheese over the top.
· Sprinkle the cake with sugar.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Nuclear plants are sprinkled liberally across the capital, with a particularly dense clump in the northern suburbs.· My next target was the deck chair area, which was liberally sprinkled with coins.
· An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.· Stir nuts and water into remaining cake mix mixture, then sprinkle over filling.· Season, then sprinkle over the onion tops and stir again. 4.· Spoon into the prepared baking dish, season with the nutmeg and then sprinkle over the Parmesan.· Fresh mint is also good finely chopped and sprinkled over buttery new potatoes or peas.· This is also sprinkled over the salads, to be followed by capers and some chopped chives or parsley.
· He enjoyed it as the boy watched him sign his initials on the letter and then sprinkle sand on it.· Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, then sprinkle the remaining filling over the cake.· He then sprinkled five litres of petrol in rooms and dropped a match.· Spoon sauce over the chicken and then sprinkle with nuts and basil.· Season, then sprinkle over the onion tops and stir again. 4.· Crush Ramen noodles, combine with toasted almonds and sesame seeds, then sprinkle on top of cabbage mixture.· The dish is then sprinkled with chopped fresh herbs such as tarragon.· Stir nuts and water into remaining cake mix mixture, then sprinkle over filling.
NOUN· Place in a heatproof dish and sprinkle the grated cheese over the top.· A sprinkling of blue cheese or Gorgonzola makes it extra special.· Top each half with a poached egg and half the tomato mixture; sprinkle each half with cheese.· The pie is sprinkled with cheese, and baked.· If desired, sprinkle with cheddar cheese.· Just before serving, sprinkle top with Parmesan cheese.· Add a tortilla and sprinkle with about cup cheese.
· Pour the milk over the mixture and sprinkle the sugar on top.· Serve the fritters warm with ice cream and sprinkled lightly with powdered sugar.· Leave too cool on a wire rack and then sprinkle with icing sugar.
· Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.· He was shaking food into the aquarium, holding a container like a pepper shaker, sprinkling Vitablend into the water.· One such method involves sprinkling the lawn with water at dusk.· Sprinkle dirt just like you sprinkle holy water.· I sprinkled water in front of the altar, and put some flowers on it, violets and dogwood.· First I sprinkled the floor with water to prevent the dust from rising as I swept it.· The soil should be kept moist, but never saturated, by sprinkling it gently with water from time to time.· In the morning young people sprinkle their elders with water to bring well-being and continued longevity.
[transitive] to scatter small drops of liquid or small pieces of somethingsprinkle something with something Sprinkle the top with cheese.sprinkle something on/over something I sprinkled cocoa over my latte.2be sprinkled with jokes/quotations etc to be full of jokes etc: The book is liberally sprinkled with clichés.3it is sprinkling American English if it is sprinkling, it is raining lightlysprinkle1 verbsprinkle2 noun
sprinklesprinkle2 noun [singular] 1a small amount of something, especially scattered on top of something SYN sprinklingsprinkle of Add a sprinkle of salt.2American English a light rain SYN drizzle