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
The local Shizuoka government and official mountain guides posted video clips and photos from the mountain Thursday morning, showing access roads and gravel trails covered with dense mist and rain.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Use a spray bottle, for example, to mist water directly onto a person’s face, neck and forearms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Sunday may start dry and bright for many, perhaps with some mist and fog patches in central and northern areas of the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Darkness hangs like mist across the sprawling woods.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
She reaches for her portable fan which mists the air, as the air conditioning gets going.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But amid the ocean mists and old-growth forests, things don’t go as planned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
The timber wars have receded into the mists of history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026
The victories won by gladiatrixes like Achillia, meanwhile, are all but lost to the mists of ages.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
When this happens I call to the mists and they come, like clouds that cover the sun.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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
Settled in a working-class Los Angeles neighborhood, invalid parent and rebellious child clash: Anne “never so much as misted an eye when Louisa could see,” Choi writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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
It drizzled, it misted, it sprinkled, and finally it froze.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
He also recommends misting your skin with a spray bottle — “like a bottle you use to spray your plants with” — every five or so minutes, keeping your skin visibly wet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
"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
New York has designated hundreds of public buildings as cooling centers, extended public swimming pool hours, dispatched volunteers to check on vulnerable residents, and opened cooling stations with misting fans and wet towels.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
Tired of waiting, she walked through the misting pillars.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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