dewy
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But don’t mistake the perfect blowout and dewy skin for softness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
I slipped on waterproof shoes, grabbed a pair of shears and, still in my pajamas, tiptoed down the grand staircase of the château and out onto the dewy grass of the garden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
On a dewy night, Jemimah Rodrigues powered India to one of the greatest chases in women's cricket to reach the World Cup final.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
He starts the film at a speed-dating event where, in a great montage, he disappoints a procession of dewy singletons who shrivel up when this hunk comes across as cold and rude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
Every stalk of the cut grain must always be safely in the shock before dark, for lying on the dewy ground all night would spoil it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
But until recently, the main game in town was the Jonathan Club, which was founded in 1895 and barely registered among the young, dewier set.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
I know about his father’s stock-market losses and his own estrangement from dewier and more smoothly conformist classmates at Harvard’s business school.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2017
The lunar glow of Gheorghiu's voice sounds wan, and her intonation often sags; never having developed as an interpreter, she can only compete with our memories of her dewier prime.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
Basically, Plotz believes that the male characters on Nashville are far fresher and dewier and prettier than the female characters.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2013
I bid them dance, I bid them sing, For the limpid glance Of my ladyling; For the gift to the Spring of a dewier spring, For God's good grace of this ladyling!
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
And steady, patient organizing, beginning at the dewiest grassroots: thus could a single small organization, from a distance and working with minimal resources, working in stealth, take over an organizational Goliath.
From Salon ● May 14, 2016
Heck, even the dewiest, pluckiest ingénue would have a hard time staying fresh once she became an endlessly re-marketable brand name.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2012
Every missile plant and laboratory has a welcome for the dewiest young technician.
From Time Magazine Archive
The newest, dewiest invention is a plump, pleasant-voiced 19-year-old named Jennie Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
To explore the fields of the firmament with his telescope, gave him intenser pleasure than the most faithful farmer ever realized from furrowing his fields in the dewiest spring mornings.
From Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger
