mist
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With help from Berkeley undergraduates, Vazquez traveled throughout the region, setting up mist nets over streams, ponds and rivers at night.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Use a spray bottle, for example, to mist water directly onto a person’s face, neck and forearms, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Her energy rises and falls alongside the mysterious mist, which has engulfed the city and brought whispers of a mysterious ancient entity lurking in its haze.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Nottingham Forest's home shirt is inspired by the mist that rolls in from the River Trent.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
In the morning a cold wet mist hung over the Lagerstrasse.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
In the Colosseum, cooling fans with mists have been set up in the entrances.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Recent discoveries about similar art-filled caves in France suggest that our ancestors were creating more than murals and pointillism beneath the primordial mists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The victories won by gladiatrixes like Achillia, meanwhile, are all but lost to the mists of ages.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
That’s in part thanks to companies riding a wave of greater interest and offering more formulations and types of packaging, such as body mists and travel sizes, that are often cheaper.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Diane Kostka planted a sign at each checkpoint for her husband and son and misted them with a spray bottle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025
That means not throwing them straight into the produce drawer, and instead storing them in a misted, sealed bag.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2024
He watched me holding her and his eyes misted with happiness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Like other houseplants, a tree will appreciate being misted, though be careful about mixing water with strings of electric lights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
The pane misted over, and she couldn’t see anything but herself reflected as if she sat outside in a little snowy room.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
"Sweating and misting work in the same way, which is also why it's comfortable and cooler to be near a fountain or open body of water," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The Rajasekhar family raised their arms in front of the giant misting machine opposite the Colosseum in Rome.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Water trucks and misting systems will be used to suppress dust, and equipment will be fitted with noise-reducing mufflers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Other restoration efforts include the implementation of an anti-fire misting system beneath the cathedral’s roof and the recreation of the original cross.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
It was barely misting now; Alice was going to be right.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
