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Meanings of moist in English
Synonyms
Examples for "damp"
Examples for "damp"
1
The family say the house is damp and unsafe for their children.
2
Food was paltry and hygienic conditions often dismal in damp overcrowded cells.
3
Silverfish only thrive in damp conditions, so they're fairly easy to control.
4
I bring coffee,' she said firmly, and took the damp bundle away.
5
The street lamps were alight; the rays glittered on the damp pavements.
1
The climate is in general cold and humid, especially in the north-east.
2
Any source of water can recharge them-tapwater, puddles, tears, humid air.
3
This was quite a different environment from the humid jungles of Rossak.
4
Just a few thousand police patrol Panama's humid, inhospitable border with Colombia.
5
It's hot and humid and will make you feel right at home.
1
All the Bladder Nuts grow freely in good light dampish loam.
2
Planted against a wall, in good dampish loam, it succeeds well.
3
The only thing, it's dampish like; but perhaps mother here kin rig yaou aout.
4
Contributing to the gloom was the menace of possible rain, as conditions remained dampish, nondescript.
5
Tha' looks a mite dampish, there, Roger; been playing in the splash again, have you?
Usage of moist in English
1
One possible mechanism is that moist smokeless tobacco affects the inflammatory response.
2
You also can create cold and moist conditions in a root cellar.
3
It was moist; it was dank with the reek of decaying matter.
4
No, in fact they're a good height for a base this moist.
5
He had not thrived in the moist air of the great valley.
6
This plant grows preferably in cool and moist woods or in bogs.
7
The larks rose a little way to sing in the moist air.
8
His hands were infinitely repulsive; they were red and soft and moist.
9
Monkshood likes cool growing conditions with moist, rich soil and some shade.
10
It was moist, when found, with the natural juices of the plant.
11
In moist, favorable seasons, it succeeds well in comparatively poor, thin soil.
12
If he stays cool, Brian thought, cool and moist, it might help.
13
The listener's eyes grew moist; there rose a lump in his throat.
14
In November, 1879, the warm, moist weather brought them out in numbers.
15
Without elation, without an interval of moist glory the cold was gone.
16
His nurseries were usually located in the moist land along some stream.
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South Africa
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United States of America
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