dew
noun
moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
dews
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present tense formof dew (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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After long basking on the French Riviera, Somerset Maugham returned to London for a ten-week chill in Britain's foggy-foggy autumnal dews.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the groups that attacked Javits professed to reflect the dews of U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stillness of noon, the depths of twilight, and the dews and pearls of the morning, are all to be found on the | canvases of this most benevolent and kindhearted man.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stooped to remove his shoes, damp with the heavy dews of pasture and field.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
So the normal leaf spends the night in the dews.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson
