After having moistened the whole of the ribband, the tongue pushes it so as to make it re-enter the mandibles, but in an opposite direction, where it is worked up anew.
In building their nest they employ soft clay only, scraped from its bottom when sufficiently moistened by a shower, which, far from injuring, consolidates and strengthens their architecture.
Electric connections have to be made with the latter by means of cloth moistened with dilute salt solution; drying of the salt solution, however, gives rise to a variation of resistance in the electrolytic contact.
In order to secure better electric contact, a small strip of cloth moistened with dilute salt and glycerine is wound round the tinsel.
Carlita moistened her lips, and then continued her grewsome questioning.
The major sank on his pillow, after he had moistened his lips, and spoke no more.
Many an eye wasmoistened with a tear; and even the Judges did not look angrily when that murmur met their ears.
Isabella threw herself at her father's feet, and pressed to her lips the hand which she also moistened with her tears.
That night her pillow wasmoistened with abundant tears, as she lay and reflected upon her lamented mother!
Her pouting lips were like the rose moistened with dew: her high, pale forehead was pure as marble; and her cheeks were suffused in blushes which seemed to be born beneath the clustering ringlets of her dark brown hair.
For example, when asked about the clay, he might have said simply, that clay is moistened earth--what sort of clay is not to the point.
But, in the course of time, the rumors of an infidel world reached even to me, and I knew all the horror of those doubts which weigh down the heart during the day, and which return at night upon the pillow moistened with tears.
One cup of milk, 1/2 cup of water, 1 large teaspoonful of butter, a scant tablespoonful of flour moistenedwith a small quantity of water, before adding.
An old cook told Mary she always moistened half a teaspoonful of cornstarch and added to the stew just before removing from the range to cause it to have a creamy consistency.
Cook all together, then add 1 tablespoonful of corn starch and one of flour (moistened with a little cold water before adding).
When it commences to boil add the moistened flour and cook until the mixture thickens, stirring constantly to prevent burning, or cook in a double boiler.
Cream together the butter, sugar and egg, add the corn starch moistened with a little cold water, add grated rind and juice of one lemon, molasses, and lastly add water.
Thicken with flour, using 2 tablespoonfuls (moistened with cold water) to each cup of liquid, and season with salt and paprika.
She clasped her hands beneath the covers, and moistened her feverish lips.
She moistened her dry lips, and blinked desperately to crowd away those tears.
A deep brownish streak showed where he had applied the moistened cloth.
Can it be she is thinking of them, Her face is so proud and so still, And her lashes are moistened with tears?
He manufactured ink out of soot, moistened with wine.
His shrivelled cheeks trembled and briny tears moistened his yellow eyeballs.
If the salt be a soluble one, it should be moistened and dipped into the flame, while if it be an insoluble salt, it should be kept dry and exposed beyond the point of the flame.
When they are moistened with nitrate of cobalt, and ignited in the oxidizing flame, a black, or grey infusible mass is produced.
On charcoal burns to a white ash, which moistened with nitrate of cobalt and heated shows the alumina reaction.
Combined with water, this acid exists in nature as the native boracic acid; this acid gives with test paper prepared from Brazil wood, when moistened with water, a characteristic reaction, for the paper becomes completely bleached.
The alkaline mass laid on silver and moistened gives the sulphur reaction.
The phosphates give a green color to the oxidation flame, especially when they are moistened with sulphuric acid.
Forms a white incrustation on the charcoal, whichmoistened with cobalt solution assumes a green color.
Magnesia and its hydrate are white and very voluminous, scarcely soluble in hot or cold water, and restores moistened red litmus paper to its original blue color.
Moistened with the solution of nitrate of cobalt, and heated in the oxidation flame, it presents a bead, colored from brick-red to brown, according to the quantity used.
The alkaline mass laid on silver and moistened gives the sulphur-reaction.
This salt, if moistened and applied to a polished silver surface, will blacken it.
He moistenedhis lips with his tongue, and his eyes looked dead as a snake's.
The Flora of a region where nature provides no genial fertilizing rains, and whose soil is simply a shifting sand, moistened only in certain places by a brackish water, must necessarily be one of extreme poverty.
Only the lettes, or valleys, which in our Dunes receive the pluvial waters and preserve a sufficient amount of fertility, are here just moistened by rare saline infiltrations, and almost always remain in a condition of absolute sterility.
The skin having been laid upon a table with the hair uppermost, a stout brush, slightly moistened with the mercurial solution, is passed over the smooth surface of the hairs with strong pressure.
He moistened his lips in that slow way, and smiled.
For the last twenty-four hours it had been raining heavily, now the air was moistenedby a Scotch mist.
She thrust her handkerchief into the vase of roses, and drawing his heavy head against her shoulder, moistened his brow and temples.
Every now and then he moistened them slowly with his tongue.
Abbot said with moistened eyes, "You are magnificent in your favours, my Lord, and may God reward you, for we are only poor monks and can make you no return but by blessings and prayers.
The child looked up at the stars with moistened eyes and an expression of immutable faith on her innocent brow.
The Tsarevna immediately moistened her kerchief in the sea, and gave it to the good youth.
As the Tsarevich Ivan leaped off her on to the ground, the bird Mogol coughed up his calves again, fastened them on to his legs, moistened them with her spittle, and the Tsarevich went on his way well and strong.
The gum must be wiped dry before applying the moistened toothache plaster.
So far above the shower had been his head, that not a hair of it wasmoistened by the rain-drops!
Finding that I remained obstinate, they left me lying bound and helpless, with a pannikin of water within a foot of my face, having previously moistened my lips with salt water.
I crept through the opening and with the tiger's blood not yet cold, moistened my parching tongue.
I ran to him and for a moment our arms were about each others shoulders and our eyes were moistened by tears.
His breath came slowly and gaspingly, and at brief intervals his physician moistened his parched lips with a restorative cordial, and murmured words of encouragement in his ear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moistened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
