wettish

Example Sentences

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Then Leroshi found a patch of wettish sand in the sunbaked Ewaso Ng’iro riverbed.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022

“On the one hand, some people say that it looked warmish and wettish, at least occasionally. On another hand, nobody can figure out how it could have been warmish and wettish.”

From The Verge • Oct. 2, 2017

Based on fancy CFS models, using Met Office numbers, Jackone expects a "wettish" buildup to Glastonbury, followed by "wet/damp" and a gradual "drying up".

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

Mom closed the door behind Mr. Fitzgibbons and looked at me with wettish eyes.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

Mercifully our ship was handy, so we got our tents and slept warm, though all our things were wettish.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur