moisten
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become moist.
have moistened
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present perfectof moisten.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The older dwellings now begin to look weather-beaten, through the effect of the many eastern storms that have moistened their unpainted shingles and clapboards, for not less than forty years.
From Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Their tears have moistened the earth about it.
From Dreams by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
For I have told you every grief In all the days of twenty years, And I have moistened you with tears, And in your decades found relief.
From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers
In the deserts halfa grass and several kinds of thorn bushes grow; and wherever rain or springs have moistened the ground, numerous wild flowers thrive.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
To-day we have all cried—boys and all; and have moistened the bun-loaf and the gooseberry-jam at tea with our tears.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
