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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
dew
[
doo
,
dyoo
]
/
du
,
dyu
/
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Part of Speech:
Main Entry:
dew
Part of Speech:
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Main Entry:
dew
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example Sentences
He was in no hurry to go anywhere with the
dew
still heavy in the air.
One more drop of
dew
and this movie would have drowned.
Beads of
dew
cling to the florets that spiral inside a sunflower head.
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He was in no hurry to go anywhere with the
dew
still heavy in the air.
One more drop of
dew
and this movie would have drowned.
Beads of
dew
cling to the florets that spiral inside a sunflower head.
The best time to trim is after a rain or in the early morning when the plants are damp with
dew
.
For humidity, it is actually the
dew
point that is of interest.
So it's plausible that lotus leaves take advantage of natural vibrations to retain their water repellency after
dew
forms on them.
Gnats were thought to be formed out of spots of
dew
on leaves.
Condensing the ammonia-water vapor is achieved by changing the mixture's
dew
point.
The morning
dew
glistens off her abdomen, four eyes catching the sunrise to the east.
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Main Entry:
dew
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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Main Entry:
(mountain) dew
Part of Speech:
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Main Entry:
DEW
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Main Entry:
Dew
Part of Speech:
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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