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dew

[doo, dyoo] / du, dju /
NOUN
moisture
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The National Weather Service does not typically keep records of dew points.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

He also came to treasure his time mowing the fairways each morning before the golfers arrived, the dew glistening on the grass while the nibbling, untroubled deer looked on from the rough.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

"So we'll be trying to lose the odd toss, but no, you've got to try and factor in the dew, the opposition and what you think the pitch might do."

From Barron's Feb. 5, 2026

Out of a Toyota Camry came another, who brushed his teeth in the driver’s side mirror, spit the toothpaste on the asphalt, rubbed the dew off his windshield with paper towels, and drove off.

From Slate Jan. 27, 2026

Some rabbits say he controls the weather, because the wind, the damp and the dew are friends and instruments to rabbits against their enemies.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

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

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

He stooped to remove his shoes, damp with the heavy dews of pasture and field.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

It was not yet half-past nine and the air was still fresh with the dews of the night.

From The Turnstile by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

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

Their corners were vague, their facades streaked, dewed, smeared.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The sky is pale blue there, dewed with yellow.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

A cold sweat dewed on my neck as I descended the stairs.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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 Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Gordon Stables

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

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

"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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