whet
Example Sentences
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That ritual whetted his curiosity about his nation’s native spirit.
Although many of the samples are yet to be gathered for a journey to Earth that remains years in the future, those already collected have whetted researchers’ appetite for their return home.
From Scientific American
If this information has merely whetted your appetite and you still want all of the trees, there is a way — a trick Olson says fruit tree growers are doing to maximize their acreage.
From Seattle Times
Netflix knew it had a captive audience, thirsty to learn more about Korea, their appetites whet by the likes of Squid Game and Extraordinary Attorney Woo.
From BBC
Revisiting them in middle age only sharpens that suspicion, whetting it against the contradictory pondering of whether letting go of our dreams truly serves us.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
