wet
adjective
moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid.
unwet
-
a word derived from
wet.
Example Sentences
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Their track would be like the passage of the Red Sea, which they might traverse with unwet feet, though a wall of destruction were impending on either side.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Such episodes belonged to the times; and, after all, by making a circuit of six miles he found the Psalter miraculously unwet, and only his worldly pride remained at the lake's bottom.
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
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
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
Pull down the blinds, bring fiddle and clarionet That there be no foot silent in the room Nor mouth from kissing, nor from wine unwet; Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.
From Responsibilities and other poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
