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, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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
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 Sparks, William Henry
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 Broughton, Rhoda
Would not the tear of sympathy have moistened the cheek, and the still small voice whispered of a solemn time that must come to them?
From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Hanna, Abigail Stanley
