wet
adjective
moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid.
unwet
-
a word derived from
wet.
Example Sentences
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Yet time has been, with gold “I might have been redeem'd.”—The princess ceas'd, And save her own no cheek unwet was seen.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
Giorgio," said she, "do you see this beautiful bird close to the ship--swimming so steadily--its snowy plumage apparently unwet from its contact with the wave?
From A Love Story by A Bushman
Its babble stirs the laughter of the hills; The rooted mountains mock its fume and fret; And all the summer long the idle mills Wait wearily with water-wheel unwet.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
It was like Gideon's fleece, unwet with dew: the desert wind that breathed over it left none of its wild influences there.
From Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
More than a thousand ruined souls I saw, Thus fleeing from before one who on foot Was passing o'er the Styx with soles unwet.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
