misty
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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
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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
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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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