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Example sentences for "wets"

Lexicographically close words:
weten; weth; wether; wethers; wetness; wett; wetted; wetter; wettest; wetting
  1. De hard tacks is 3 or 4 in a box, we wets 'em in water and cooks 'em in a skillet.

  2. Like Varuna, Parjanya also upsets a water-barrel, and wets the earth.

  3. The decrease of Varuna worship in favor of Indra results partly from the more peaceful god of rain appearing less admirable than the monsoon-god, who overpowers with storm and lightning, as well as 'wets the earth.

  4. Wets his parch'd tongue, and rolls his hollow eyes.

  5. The sheet of paper to be coloured is placed in front of the woman who wets it over with the required colour by means of a long thin brush like a whitewash brush, which she dips into a bowl.

  6. The rain swirls into the open front, and wets the bottom of the blankets.

  7. The dentist gives him some yellow liquid to hold in his mouth, which the man insists on swallowing, wets a handkerchief and washes his face, roughly rubbing his nose the wrong way, and lets him go.

  8. There is a sledge drawn by one poor horse, and on the front of it is a cask of water pierced with holes, so that the water squirts out and wets the stones, making it easier sliding for the runners.

  9. No, but wets her cheeks, Lady, because she has forgot his name.

  10. And now, when the moon's riding at the full, She leaves her dancers lonely and lies there Upon that level place, and for three days Stretches and sighs and wets her long pale cheeks.

  11. But when iron is wet, a little of it dissolves in the water that wets it.

  12. It wets the wall as much as water on the earth would, but it does not run off.

  13. He fared like the school-boy who attempts to stop with his finger the spout of a water cistern, while the stream, exasperated at this compression, escapes by a thousand uncalculated spurts, and wets him all over for his pains.

  14. You don't know that the wets will win, Elder.

  15. And, besides, I do not believe the wets can carry the day.

  16. A dank weeping fog settles down 'tween squalls, which drifts in and wets everything.

  17. The dew wets my yellow locks, The rain wets my skin, The babe's cold in my arms, Oh Gregory, let me in!

  18. This is because the excess is in the layer which wets the solid and remains wetting it when the solid is removed.

  19. The leather, too, readily wets and goes out of shape.

  20. It wets to the skin, and makes all protection vain.

  21. Spray begins to fly over the forecastle, and wets the yarns the boys are knotting;--ball them up and put them below.

  22. Watch the pebbles on the beach; the foam runs up and wets them, almost before it can slip back the sunshine has dried them again.

  23. Light pours down, and the bitter salt sea wets the pebbles; to look at them makes the mouth dry, in the unconscious recollection of the saltness and bitterness.

  24. In Gujarat, when an orthodox Shiah Musalman travels with a Sunni, he spits, and among the Roman Catholics of Kanara, at baptism the priest wets his thumb with spittle and with it touches the child's ears and nostrils.

  25. At the grave the brother or son of the dead man wets the end of his turban and drops a little water on the lips of the corpse.

  26. Spray begins to fly over the forecastle, and wets the yarns the boys are knotting;-- ball them up and put them below.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.