Example Sentences

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The group has secured EU funding to help restore the bog, removing alien species and blocking drains to rewet the ground.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

Pope’s latest research, conducted in the Sierra and Plumas national forests, focuses on how people can rewet meadows in both burned and unburned areas by doing things like building beaver dam analogues.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

This includes specific targets to rewet peatlands and to increase pollinator populations.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023

When the researchers rewet the paper, the battery produced 0.5 volt for more than an hour.

From Scientific American • Jul. 29, 2022

Then Jinny spit into the ink bowl to rewet it, dipped her feather in, and wrote.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder