sprinkling
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈsprɪŋklɪŋ/
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esparcimiento
- Demographically, the neighborhood is largely black with a sprinkling of young white couples and students.
There's a few sprinkling of this Indian and and of course the African Americans are black.
- There's a few sprinkling of this Indian and and of course the African Americans are black.
Examples
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With so little moisture in the dunes, there's only a sprinkling of life, and all of it's small.
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And instead of foreign heads of state and crown heads of Europe, the guests would include a sprinkling of actors of stage and screen, fashion designers, and other celebrities.
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Colleges also like to have a sprinkling of faculty children.
Academic text (1992) -
There were other islands, small and mostly rocky, though all sustained at least a sprinkling of growth.
Fiction book (1992) -
In a world of dying children, war, and pain, there are sprinklings of beauty in so many places.
Blog text (30) -
The lights of downtown Louisville were on, and there was a sprinkling of lights along the Indiana shore.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her round face with its sprinkling of freckles was saucy and cheerful.
Fiction book (1994) -
The woman was rather petite, with short reddish hair and a sprinkling of freckles across the bridge of her nose.
Fiction book (1991) -
Naples was now the busiest emigrant port, dispatching 240,000 people, mostly Italians, but a fair sprinkling of Greeks, Turks, and Syrians, too.
Academic text (1993) -
There was a sprinkling of snow on the ground.
Synonyms
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2.5
A thin layer of material spread over a surface
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4.6
A small number of things spread out in different places
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Morphology
Etymology
The word sprinkling comes from sprinkle, an old word meaning 'scatter', and the little ending -ling meaning 'small thing'. So a sprinkling is a 'small scattering' — a thin layer or a small number of items, like a few herbs or a few people.