moisten
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become moist.
had moistened
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past perfectof moisten.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere, when voting machines malfunctioned, the official explanation was that rain and dampness had moistened the ballots, requiring them to be dried out in ovens in Evanston, just north of the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was only a matter of minutes before all the world's wheat speculators knew that at last rain had moistened the dry wheat fields of the U. S. "dust bowl."
From Time Magazine Archive
Together they had moistened Claire’s dry lips with water and her tongue had moved slightly.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
They could smell the dust of the race track where the sprinkling cart had moistened it; and they could smell hamburgers frying and see balloons aloft.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
The birds had soon grown putrid, so that many hours had passed since we had moistened our lips.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
