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misty

[mis-tee] / ˈmɪs ti /


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That more humid air combined with light winds across England and Wales into Tuesday means it will start off rather misty and foggy with areas of low cloud for some.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Scott was already unmistakably a visual stylist — these misty landscapes and candlelit interiors often look like paintings come to life — but he also seems keenly aware of the absurdity of it all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

What follows is a soaring, visionary narrative that connects the known world to the misty realms of Celtic legend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

A striking new pitviper with a vivid grass-green body and amber-like eyes has been discovered in the misty mountains of western Sichuan, China.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

I felt Dadi’s warm, misty breath on my shoulder.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

Like a lot of farmers, 54-year-old Graham Wilson from Dylife in Powys juggles a few different businesses, one of which involves heading up into the mistier fields and forests, whatever the weather.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

Gray and damp at 10 a.m., it proved grayer, mistier and wetter at 6 p.m.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

But this version of “The Visit” has another dimension, too, a mistier one that exalts the notion of deathless love.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015

The “twilight” of the exhibition’s title has as much to do with the mistier regions of consciousness as with the borderlands of real-world time and space.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010

A bold, sweeping outline of distant hills, here and there swelling into mountains, and crowned with a deeper, mistier blue, divided the rich green of the earth from the azure of the heavens.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

“I think we will leave the lesson here for today,” said Professor Trelawney in her mistiest voice.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Now, Agatha, confess—isn't my husband the very vaguest, mistiest man you ever knew?

From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Walter Crane

Jacob Boehm's mistiest dreams are clearness itself compared with the English prophet's utterances.

From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

It was as picturesque as Battersea in Whistler's mistiest days.

From Shandygaff by Christopher Morley

To Zodiac after a while they came— The twistiest, mistiest town, With odd little collopy, scallopy streets Meandering up and down.

From Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann by Winifred Bromhall




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