wet
adjective
moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid.
unwetted
-
a word derived from
wet.
Example Sentences
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Suddenly a hand emerged from the water, and then a head, bright and unwetted, as though the water had no power to touch it.
From Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson
All the stale smells of the day before persisted—that of the medicaments on the shelves, of the unwetted dust on the roads, the sickly odour of malt from a neighbouring brewery.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
Bring quiet, sober reason into the loftiest and loveliest enthusiasm of your faith, and then there will be something in it that will live through storm, and walk the water with unwetted and unsinking foot.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
For it was plain that the ashes, if unwetted, might ultimately have been blown away by the wind.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
We succeeded, by a relief of hands, in the effort, and saved the whole machinery unwetted.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
