Example Sentences

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She doesn’t push it, but as a study in evaporating dewiness, she’s a guaranteed heartbreaker.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2015

For this production — directed by a keen-eyed Scott Elliott and featuring a capable, callow-seeming young cast whose ostensible dewiness disappears when the blood starts to flow — deserves your full attention.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2015

What hits you first is the dewiness of Fawn Ledesma's Juliet, the lovestruck maiden of the House of Capulet.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2012

A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the evening was simply divine, in its hushed dewiness rich with the unfolding fragrance of innumerable subtle herbs, for we took advantage of a glorious moon to travel in the coolness.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram