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dew

[doo, dyoo] / du, dju /
NOUN
moisture
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The National Weather Service office in Oxnard, which issues forecasts for Los Angeles County, doesn’t keep historic records for dew point or relative humidity, he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

We woke at 4:30 a.m. to slog through fields from cold morning dew through to blazing midday heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The dew point, which measures the absolute humidity in the air, has been closer to 70 degrees than 60 for much of the summer, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

That should help run-scoring and dew could have a significant impact, giving an advantage to the chasing side.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

She tripped and fell, grazing her knee on the gravel, which was wet with dew.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

While the groups that attacked Javits professed to reflect the dews of U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

So the normal leaf spends the night in the dews.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

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

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

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

The sky is pale blue there, dewed with yellow.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Sadly not, for the dewing is done by sprinklers, and the baby is alone.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2019

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

In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, 630 Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing.

From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody

I could see the lips whitening and drying, the forehead dewing with tiny beads of perspiration.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna

"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


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