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moistening

[ UK /mˈɔ‍ɪstənɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of making something slightly wet

How To Use moistening In A Sentence

  • Oil skin: choose moistening type, and wipe off after absorption.
  • Gnarled, twisted, and crevassed, its deepest, darkest cave concealed a fragile moistening stalactite. When a Billion Chinese Jump
  • ‘Reckons I'm not fit to have him,’ he muttered, eyes moistening.
  • That the internal membrane of the nostrils may be kept always moist, for the better perception of odours, there are two canals, that conduct the tears after they have done their office in moistening and cleaning the ball of the eye into a sack, which is called the lacrymal sack; and from which there is a duct, that opens into the nostrils: the aperture of this duct is formed of exquisite sensibility, and when it is stimulated by odorous particles, or by the dryness or coldness of the air, the sack contracts itself, and pours more of its contained moisture on the organ of smell. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • [4338] or a young lamb divided in the back, exenterated, &c.; all acknowledge the chief cure in moistening throughout. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • The minister listened, his eyes moistening and his thin hand trembling.
  • At what point do you switch priorities from irrigating the existing crops to pre-moistening the fallow fields in preparation for stale bedding or getting your seeds to sprout?
  • In a way, I was glad it was over; I could already feel my eyes moistening and my voice breaking.
  • He paused, moistening his lower lip, nervous of her reaction.
  • THE DRAGONS OF SPRING DAWNING Moistening his blood-caked lips with water, Raistlin took hold of the next night-blue spellbook and pulled it over to him. Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas
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