Verb (used with object) : She sprinkled powder on the baby. ,to sprinkle a lawn.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : It may sprinkle this evening.    From Dictionary.com. 

The final 1/6 of the 41st is in sprinkled with two small precincts in Neabsco district, and two small precincts in Woodbridge district.    From Wordnik.com.  [A look back at the 51st] Reference

The very few violent situations were most probably caused by kettling and the agent provocateurs you had in sprinkled throughout the crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready And Waiting….. and waiting, and waiting…. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

There are a great number of assert calls sprinkled liberally throughout the code.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

More new editions of our regular lines mostly with some new titles sprinkled in like.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMIXTALK] Reference

Instead of this, you'll find this phrase sprinkled everywhere except where it's supposed to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference

Once again, Soto gives this book just the right mix of Spanish terms sprinkled alongside English ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

It was like going from one cheer-on session to another, with tons of encouraging emails and calls sprinkled in between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nataly Kogan: 5 Dark Secrets of Entrepreneurship: What (Almost) No One Tells You About Starting Your Own Company] Reference

So aid money ends up being "sprinkled" around without much effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amanda Lin Costa: Haiti Double Feature] Reference

With Netflix envelopes and NRA brochures kind of sprinkled into the mix.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of Eratosthenes] Reference

Major U.S. and European print and radio outlets will be sprinkled in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gen. David Petraeus Media Blitz Planned] Reference

There were maybe 4 or 5 galleries and maybe a few others sprinkled around.    From Wordnik.com.  [A. Moret: LAX to Charles de Gaulle] Reference

A few years ago, she sprinkled Kleinliebental dirt on her dad's California grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roots Network] Reference

Her days were sprinkled with intermittent naps, that never really helped the fatigue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Family Resemblances] Reference

What you see to the right is what lawyers like to call parody sprinkled with "fair use.".    From Wordnik.com.  [TURKEY TIME: BENNIFER GETS BASTED] Reference

A dill pickle spear is then laid on top and the entire dog is sprinkled with celery salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine De Orio: The Best of the Wurst] Reference

Such solids will look even dressier if the fabrics are sprinkled with paillettes or crystals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dressing for the Stage] Reference

Then comes fresh celery, and King Arthur flour, huge strainers of it, sprinkled to avoid clumps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Taste Makers] Reference

Asian competitors are sprinkled throughout the field, as multinationals race to control the digital age.    From Wordnik.com.  [MASTERS OF THE DIGITAL AGE] Reference

Investigators believe there may be dozens of bin Laden sympathizers like Sufaat sprinkled across Southeast Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malaysia: A Good Place To Lie Low] Reference

Her speeches and her conversations are sprinkled with "we" references to the Clinton administrations in Arkansas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Then And Now] Reference

Color has actually been sprinkled through the magazine 13 times since 1989, when several design changes were made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorful Prose] Reference

Hundreds more of these aristocratic estates are sprinkled along the Baltic coast from Poland all the way to Estonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Baltic Beaches] Reference

The museum's wealthy board (sprinkled with the folks behind Levi Strauss and The Gap) certainly foresaw the possibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Museum By The Bay] Reference

She sprinkled petals at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial and kibitzed with photographers with the self-possession of a political pro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea's New Morning] Reference

The surprise was that sprinkled among the usual metallurgists, ceramics mavens and plastics gurus were geneticists and zoologists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature At The Patent Office] Reference

Every year the program is generously sprinkled with sessions whose titles just make you want to say "What on earth is that all about?".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Off-Road Map To Davos] Reference

Today's headlines were sprinkled with words that seldom go with breaking developments in the Middle East: "cooperate," "agree," "assist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiyotaka Akasaka: For Middle East Media, Can Peace Be the Message?] Reference