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He also came to treasure his time mowing the fairways each morning before the golfers arrived, the dew glistening on the grass while the nibbling, untroubled deer looked on from the rough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

"So we'll be trying to lose the odd toss, but no, you've got to try and factor in the dew, the opposition and what you think the pitch might do."

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

“Dew point,” on the other hand, refers to the temperature at which the air becomes saturated with moisture so that vapor will actually condense into dew.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

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

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

It looked inviting, after their night spent in the open, with the heavy dews soaking them through.

From Two Boy Gold Miners or, Lost in the Mountains by Frank V. Webster

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

The sky is pale blue there, dewed with yellow.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

Captain West spoke to the mate, who bawled the order along, and the watch, reinforced by the watch below, began dewing up the mainsail and foresail and climbing into the rigging.

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London

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

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

"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

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

From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Gordon Stables