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misty

[mis-tee] / ˈmɪs ti /


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That more humid air combined with light winds across England and Wales into Tuesday means it will start off rather misty and foggy with areas of low cloud for some.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

I get a little misty remembering my own clumsy progress through that flower-filled minefield.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

North Sea coasts from Northumberland to Suffolk could remain cloudy and misty on Saturday but should be much sunnier on Sunday.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

A sniper can also operate in all weather, unlike drones that struggle in cloudy or misty conditions, said Coyote, who commands a 28-strong sniper unit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

But Ruth May was shrouded in so many misty layers of mosquito netting I could barely make out any semblance of a dead child inside.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Like a lot of farmers, 54-year-old Graham Wilson from Dylife in Powys juggles a few different businesses, one of which involves heading up into the mistier fields and forests, whatever the weather.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

Gray and damp at 10 a.m., it proved grayer, mistier and wetter at 6 p.m.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

But this version of “The Visit” has another dimension, too, a mistier one that exalts the notion of deathless love.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015

The “twilight” of the exhibition’s title has as much to do with the mistier regions of consciousness as with the borderlands of real-world time and space.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010

And with him was a dimmer, mistier specter that she recognized as Billy.

From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

“I think we will leave the lesson here for today,” said Professor Trelawney in her mistiest voice.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

That has always a great effect upon the English, whose feudal notions are rather of the mistiest, and principally derived from Waverley.”

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various

Jacob Boehm's mistiest dreams are clearness itself compared with the English prophet's utterances.

From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

Yet Leith Hill, even on the mistiest day, can give the true notion of height.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

Experiments were indeed being made at the same time, with a view to armour-plating the hulls of ships, but all that was still in the dimmest and mistiest future.

From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd


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