moisten
Example Sentences
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The mark is made with the moistened ashes of palms that were burned after the previous year’s Palm Sunday.
The teacher bristled, with anger moistening her eyes: “Just think of where you would prefer to live.”
Months earlier, in March, farmworkers had used a machine to drop each little plant, grown in a greenhouse, into the moistened soil.
From Los Angeles Times
This and other recent rainfall have done much to moisten the landscape and make it harder for blazes to start.
From Los Angeles Times
There’s nothing like a life-and-death situation turning out “life” to moisten one’s eyes, especially if you or a loved one has spent any time in the medical system, or feared the possibility.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
