wetness

Example Sentences

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It’s strange to work out in damp gear—the wetness helps conduct electricity—though newer dry suits are now entering the market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

There has been a notable difference in wetness across Scotland with Aultbea in the north-west Higlands not recording any rainfall since 18 January, instead enjoying some wintry sunshine.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

We’ve ridden them all, and did so without ponchos, to grade them based on wetness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

Warming can be due to increased wetness, disturbance to the protective layer of organic matter or sediment deposition, allowing more heat to penetrate.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023

These were the total features of his world— the sea sound and the three small lights: darkness, flatness, vastness, wetness: and, in the gulf of night, the gulf-stream of the wind.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White