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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

That more humid air paired with light winds across England and Wales into Tuesday means some will start off rather misty and foggy.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Restaurants were packed with diners and hotels were fully booked with tourists looking to soak in the region’s misty redwood forests and dramatic ocean views.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

She described the large seascape in its unforgettable blues, the watercolors of trees, the misty quality of the skies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Snowflakes swirled in the misty beams of light flooding the front of the domed building that used to be a bank until Mr. Lemoncello turned it into a library.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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 for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

From Poems by Edward Thomas

“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

To Zodiac after a while they came— The twistiest, mistiest town, With odd little collopy, scallopy streets Meandering up and down.

From Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann by Winifred Bromhall

It was the mistiest spot I ever visited.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

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

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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