Example Sentences

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Seldom does water polo attract attention except when it is wetting the spectators who sit too close to the tank at swimming meets.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The sea is wetting the books," Jacob informs William.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

You will perhaps attach but small importance at first thought, to the next insidious foe to library books that I shall name—that is, wetting by rain.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

Thus, Nature apart from motion cannot be owned, being no good, as a cave is no good to a caveman outside it: rain is wetting him; if he takes it, moves in, it is good.

From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

What aince was sweet is bitter now, The sun of joy is setting; In eyes that wont to glame wi' glee, The briny tear is wetting fast, The briny tear is wetting.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles