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dew

[doo, dyoo] / du, dju /
NOUN
moisture
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Lewis said dew point temperatures are projected to be in the 70s for most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

We woke at 4:30 a.m. to slog through fields from cold morning dew through to blazing midday heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“In some cases I’ve been seeing dew points above 70 — 72, 73 — that is like Miami-level humidity.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

With dew not playing a part in making the ball harder to grip for the West Indies bowlers, it proved too much for England when the ball turned.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

“Oh no, child! It is not likely; and now it is time for you to come in; you’ll catch the fever if you stop out when the dew is falling.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

After long basking on the French Riviera, Somerset Maugham returned to London for a ten-week chill in Britain's foggy-foggy autumnal dews.

From Time Magazine Archive

The stillness of noon, the depths of twilight, and the dews and pearls of the morning, are all to be found on the | canvases of this most benevolent and kindhearted man.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the groups that attacked Javits professed to reflect the dews of U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stooped to remove his shoes, damp with the heavy dews of pasture and field.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Hues That shame the rainbow's royal arch Set all the harvest fields a-gleam With beauty, fresh with fragrant dews To crown the season's onward march.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

In the Philippines a native combo dewed the eyes of the crew of an LST with a proud performance of Stardust.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cold sweat dewed on my neck as I descended the stairs.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

I crammed my ribbon tie in my vest pocket and unbuttoned my collar, wiping at the clammy sweat dewed on my neck.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In the corner of my eye, I could only see a hint of him—eyes as incandescently blue as the heart of fire, a briar of dark hair dewed with lagoon water.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Their corners were vague, their facades streaked, dewed, smeared.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Sadly not, for the dewing is done by sprinklers, and the baby is alone.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2019

He merely found himself abruptly in full possession of his senses, nerves tingling, moisture dewing his forehead, his whole being concentrated in the one act of—listening!

From Shoe-Bar Stratton by George W. Gage

In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, 630 Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing.

From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody

"I say, Capting," said a tall Yankee in a fur hat, to Peter, "what may yew calculate dewing on Long Island?"

From Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First Being the First Book by Sarah L. Barrow

I could see the lips whitening and drying, the forehead dewing with tiny beads of perspiration.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna


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