mist

Example Sentences

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Tule fog—a dense, low-lying mist named for a reedlike plant that grows in the region’s marshes—can settle over California’s vast agricultural heartland, typically from November through March.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“A mist of the miraculous,” she writes, of life itself, “irreducible to stone and bone, pulsating with that eternal question: What is all this?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

When my partner had an asthma attack, we went to the clinic and within minutes, he was breathing in albuterol mist from a nebulizer.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

Rather than scrolling, people are reading of the mist that obscures Yorkshire moors and its inhabitants’ judgments.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

When he finally stopped, Marco was gasping for breath, exhaling cold clouds of white mist.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis