mist

Example Sentences

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Tule fog forms when heat escapes from the ground on clear, calm nights, and moisture in the air condenses into a low-lying mist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“A mist of the miraculous,” she writes, of life itself, “irreducible to stone and bone, pulsating with that eternal question: What is all this?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

England and Wales will have a mainly cloudy weekend with the prospect of some patches of rain on Saturday and probably some mist and fog into Sunday morning.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

When my partner had an asthma attack, we went to the clinic and within minutes, he was breathing in albuterol mist from a nebulizer.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

The mist seems to thicken in the canopy above us, like the tree trunks are growing directly into the clouds.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day