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Example sentences for "wetting"

Lexicographically close words:
wets; wett; wetted; wetter; wettest; weuns; weve; wexe; wexed; wexen
  1. When the jelly begins to harden, pour a little into a brick-shaped mould or tin pan with straight sides, first wetting the mould with cold water.

  2. Pour a little of the jelly into a brick-shaped mould large enough to hold the galantine, first wetting the mould with cold water, and when the jelly forms lay the galantine on this.

  3. Before long a few stepping-stones were dropped into the brook, so that she could cross it without wetting her dainty feet.

  4. One day in the winter, when searching for open places under the roof through which the snow was sifting, wetting the ceiling of the room below, I found in the attic a number of curious things, and among them a child's cradle.

  5. One cup of sweet or sour milk as wetting for one quart of flour.

  6. Melt the sugar slowly, wetting a little with the water.

  7. They may be cured by wetting them several times a day with spirits of ammonia.

  8. Rub the egg in until a lather is formed, occasionally wetting the hands in warm water softened by borax.

  9. Wetting a finger, he held it up to the air.

  10. The Carib, who minded a wetting about as much as a duck, sat chuckling to himself beneath the tree's great roots.

  11. I am only glad that these 'slaves of the tyrant' will get a wetting through and through.

  12. It was a clear night; the stars seemed brightened by the cold; the wind was nipping; and a fine sleet powdered all these cloaks without wetting them, just in order to preserve the tradition that requires Christmas to be white with snow.

  13. Fires gleamed up and down through the shrubbery and the refugees sat huddled together about the flames, with their blankets about their heads, Apache-like, in an effort to dry out after the wetting of the afternoon.

  14. Five strokes underground were the signal, then an overflow, wetting every side of the mound.

  15. When the tide had receded sufficiently for the enemy to board us without wetting their delicate feet, about one hundred and fifty disgraced our decks.

  16. I remarked they ought certainly to have a patent for wetting commissions, and wished them a pleasant evening.

  17. Are you wetting your linen for fear in your niche?

  18. Claes felt her poor face burn his own, and Soetkin's tears, falling in floods, wetting his cheeks, and all her poor body shivering and trembling in his arms.

  19. She was holding her apron the while with her little trembling hands, and she was pulling the stuff jerkily and tears fell on it, wetting it.

  20. Gladys whispered to him that there was still hope, and resumed her occupation of bathing the temples with vinegar, wetting the lips with wine, and administering tea spoonfuls of wine, which still continued to find a passage down the throat.

  21. Netta, wetting her eyes with lavender water.

  22. The "wetting of the sark-sleeve," that custom of Scotland and Ireland, was in its earliest form a rite to Freya as the northern goddess of love.

  23. In Maryland girls see their future husbands by a rite similar to the Scotch "wetting of the sark-sleeve.

  24. The wetting and drying, the freezing and the thawing, the roots of plants and the borings of animals, all tend to loosen the material on the slopes or walls of the valleys, and gravity helps the loosened material to descend.

  25. I put it from me, went to the basin, and wetting the end of my finger, sufficiently softened the gum to make it more effectually fasten the letter than when I had received it.

  26. Defn: A picture (as of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the object slightly with hydrochloric or dilute sulphuric acid, then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this impression.

  27. You know a little wetting doesn't disturb them very much.

  28. He said the effects of that wetting might not show until the girls were on the court, but that they would surely suffer from it.

  29. When Nekhludoff had finished he took a book from the table, and frequently wetting the fingers with which he turned the leaves, he lighted on the chapter treating of marriage and perused it.

  30. He stumbled and fell, stinging and wetting his hands in the evening dew that was now falling, but, laughing, he straightened himself and ran into the open.

  31. Often a thorough wetting of the skin will considerably facilitate this operation.

  32. But some days afterwards, when he had recovered from his wetting in the dyer's drain he came up to sup with his old comrade.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wetting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affusion; baptism; bath; bathing; deluge; drenching; immersion; inundation; irrigation; moistening; rinsing; soaking; sopping; spattering; splashing; sprinkling; submersion; watering