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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Their tears have moistened the earth about it.
From Dreams by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
We poured out only a stream of thanks which should have moistened the parched sands of his soul, and then hastened to retrace our steps.
From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton
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
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 Poems: Patriotic, Religious by Abram Joseph Ryan
How many tears of misery have moistened its shell-covered summit, when thinking of friends far, far away they should never see again, and when hope had been rooted from the heart!
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
