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Sentence Examples Also the sites where the dew claws were removed never healed properly, forming little sloughy pits. This vapor migrates into insulated cavities and, if it reaches the dew point, it converts to liquid within the insulation. The pitch looked a picture, covered by the light dew from the night before. The dim light of dawn played lightly on the morning dew which had gathered on the window glass over night. The dew made everything on the ground sparkle, and reaffirmed his belief that this was truly God's country. The best time of day to cut is midmorning, after the dew has dried but well before any flowers wilt. In addition to measuring wind speed it also measures temperature, wind chill, dew point, humidity, and heat stress. If there are a lot of such days in the summertime bees collect a lot of melliferous dew. Measuring the resulting dew point temperature confirmed a relative humidity higher than 30 percent. The morning sun shone brightly and its gaze reflected in the morning dew and puddles on the ground. The garbanzo plants exuded a flavorful, acidic dew which made for a wonderful sun tea when the leaves were steeped in a jar of water. The heavy dew at this time of year reduces the need for watering but check if the weather continues to be warm and dry. A black frost is when the dew point is less than the low temperature reached. Everybody seemed to know his job and needed no incentive to carry it out other than the hope of a taste of the real old mountain dew. I look to my right and see that full glass, the dew dripping so artistically down its sides. Mr Spire seemed of the same mind and was washing his hands in a runnel of dew among a garble of tree roots. She works to protect hayfields, hedgerows, streams, dew ponds, and their wildlife. We've had some superb windless and cloudless nights recently, which means we've woken up to gardens saturated by heavy dew the next morning. They catch the night dew for water, we are told, and eat old tins of carrots, left by the company that once mined this spot. Do not apply insecticides when temperatures are expected to be unusually low following treatment or on nights when heavy dew forms. Show More Sentences Since it was a dry night, and there wasn't even dew on the grass, the fire spread throughout the yard. Rain, dew, and condensation from the cooling system produce enough water for a family of four. A groundsman yesterday sweeps dew off the lawn at Oakland Hills Country Club, with the Ryder Cup standing at right. The first rays of golden light touched the hillside, still wet with dew, each tiny droplet singing out in a rainbow of colors. Heavy dew in the night time and soaring soil temperatures made farming a pleasure, especially as cattle prices continued to rise. Ice fog is simply fog that forms with the air temperature and dew point below freezing. The over-wrap should be kept in place until the fruit temperature has risen past the dew point. It's a handheld weather unit that computes wind, temperature, dew point and barometric pressure in several different units of measure. If a critical temperature, known as the dew point, is reached, condensation occurs and clouds form. The glass window had been chilled by the outside rain and had cooled the hot, humid air inside the bus below its dew point. One camp simply moved their game of Capture the Flag from the evening, when dew caused a lot of slips and falls, to the afternoon. Between a third and half of the dew ponds, unique to the limestone dales in the White Peak, have also disappeared. The dew will gather on the material, which can then be wrung out into a container. At harvest-time you can start work in the fields once the dew on the wheat has dried sufficiently. The light from the Bleak Inn reflected off of the sheeny coating of dew which covered the street. The temperature of the air stream was measured just downstream of the dew point hygrometer using a thermocouple. The whip argued with the bombilation of the flies over the sugary dew of our sores. If paint fails because of penetration of rain and dew through porous paint, clean and prepare the paint surface. One of the dew breaker's victims, an elderly bridal seamstress, explains her secret of life to a young journalist. Following these methods will spread the concentrated dew or guttation over a larger surface area, causing the turf canopy to dry faster. Show More Sentences Too much moisture or rain causes mustiness in the eventual taste and so the beans area heaped up at night against the dew. Sagging spiderwebs, laden with dew, hung from the tiny branches of the hedgerow among the northern forest, in the midst of which the men waited. His skin was as pale as ever, and dew was shining in his hair and on his eyelashes. Houston's most humid months are July and August when the average dew point is 72 degrees. Temperature, atmosphere composition, and dew point are closely controlled to decarburize the strip without oxidizing the surface. Soon enough the sky began to lighten, the dawn chorus started up, and a heavy dew began to form. The fey queen took it, and when she unstoppered the bottle, a scent as of honey, beautiful as dew on roses, filled the airy chamber. The first digit, or dew claw, is rudimentary but clawed and does not contact the ground. It was beautiful sunshine, birds singing, dew on everything and it was sparkling and wonderful, a new day. The male sperm reaches the female egg by swimming through the dew which has condensed on the moss's surface. It seems like a window that you could step through and the gentle, washy colours are like the dew on freshly mown grass. The droplets of dew hung from the yellow furze and they glistened like a thousand diamonds. Ripened fruit shone in the morning light, faintly glistening with dew drops. Both powdery mildew and downy mildew often infect squash plants as autumn nights grow cooler and dew keeps the foliage moist through the night. Now the reason Allen was waiting for the dew was because he wanted his alfalfa to get some moisture on it before he started baling it. She kilted up her kirtle, because of the dew that she saw lying deep on the grass, and so went her way down through the garden. She woke, damp with morning dew, coated in a light covering of mud and grime. Early-morning dew, mist on the mountains, the usual 3-pack of hadedas flying overhead calling loudly on their way to their day-jobs. Rising dew from the bottom gently kissed the people on their faces, coating their skin in a fine residue as they slowly climbed down the ladder. Incidentally, in his schoolmastering days, he used to have the dew swept from the pitch before a match. Show More Sentences Parts of lawn that yet retain their dew on the hottest winter days are resting from brutal trims. So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell. As you probably know, fog is more likely at night, and becomes more likely as the night goes on because the air is usually cooling off and sometimes cools to the dew point. A chilled-mirror hygrometer works by using an electric cooling unit to reduce the temperature of a mirror until dew or frost forms on its surface. A fine dew of perspiration stood out on her cheeks and forehead. The view is sublime, and here Jefferson and his company were accustomed to sit, bareheaded, in the summer until bed-time, having neither dew nor insects to annoy them. Starkey says the league sets standards the Ducks have to meet for ice and building temperatures, the dew point and humidity, which, if all are met, will provide the best ice. When our second child was on the way, we purchased a house that was warmer, but sat above a basement that filled with water after every heavy dew. In fact, we used to get up extra early just to capture that dew. When the air is so sweet with blossom and the beginnings of the evening dew you could almost drink it and believe it to be the best elixir known to Man. Most manufacturers recommend that at least two hours be allowed for paint to dry before sunset if cool temperatures and heavy dew are expected that evening. Condensed water is called dew when it forms on a solid surface. The Co Clare distillery has been working at full tilt for the past few months to get enough legally made mountain dew out to the US in time for the annual celebrations. But he did not impose a tax or penalty on those who drink mountain dew, and he would not, because the mere idea is preposterous. So, the team has constructed a dew pond, an artificial reservoir traditionally favoured by farmers of chalky landscapes such as those in which the wood is situated. Use tarps as ground cloths and to cover up gear from dew and rain. The sun's rays kiss the body of the mountains as the frosts on the grass melts and the dew drops on the flower sparkle like a diamond to the glitter of light. Carrier continued refining his original product and process, and in so doing, yielded a theory of how temperature, humidity, and dew point are related. Long before humans mastered such things as car wax and rain slickers, plants were building hydrophilic lifting devices and differentiating between dew and rain drops. The only thing standing between them and death is a discovered stash of tinned carrots and the morning dew they collect from the roofs of their ramshackle dwellings. Show More Sentences In the summer, providing you get there early enough, you can buy a punnet of fresh-picked local strawberries, fat and luscious, still with the morning dew on them, almost. Sparkling drops of dew were bright points of light upon her skin. He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece. The dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot. Highland areas are cooler, causing moist air to cool below the dew point as it rises over high ground forming clouds and then rain. The shape causes dew and rain water roll down the sides, allowing the hay within to cure. At the adiabatic dew point, moisture condenses onto the mountain and it precipitates on the top and windward sides of the mountain. To Charlie, the function of a house was to keep the dew off your swag at night and shade the waterbag and tuckerboxes during the day. If he gets rid of foam cups, where am I going to put my 32oz mountain dew? The cover is encased in a transparency, with a small square revealing a dollop of dew resting on a flower petal. Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves. Plantlets were sprayed at dew point with 20-25 mL of wettable powder per plantlet. Cars in the cross alley are covered with a silver glaze of dew. The slopes of the hill facing Holyrood are where young girls in Edinburgh traditionally bathe their faces in the dew on May Day to make themselves more beautiful. Nobody looked at us and thought, 'Oh, their youthy dew has gone. I ha' just finished triculating on her up like. She'll dew now. In summer, the subtropical high pressure cells bring a sultry flow of tropical air with high dew points, and daily thundershowers are typical, though brief. I read about abiogenesis, the belief that animals and insects can be spontaneously generated from dew, piles of old clothes, the slime in wells, and mud. It is also affected by the presence of snow, hail and ice and can relate to dew, mist and fog. The processes by which atmospheric deposition occurs include fog and dew, gaseous absorption, and dry deposition. Show More Sentences The pitch is said to be 'covered' when the groundsmen have placed covers on it to protect it against rain or dew. It also occurs in nature as snow, glaciers, ice packs and icebergs, clouds, fog, dew, aquifers, and atmospheric humidity. Every enchanting mist, one hundred thousand crystal bullets of rain, sparkling dew, glistening stream, fragrant moodscapes of the rainforest are all His handiwork. Examples from Classical Literature After this I munched some bread and hard cheese, sucked the dew from the fern fronds, and then fell into a broken sleep. Mountain air and mountain dew have been known to work wonders in combination. If you could see the poor devil shake and quake for need of a few drops of 'mountain dew,' you'd believe me fast enough! All nature was stirring, refreshed with the balmy dew and coolness of the night. But any one can easily determine the dew point without a special instrument for that purpose. Sheila Kaye-Smith is not a painter, even though with dew diamonds the thorn-bush she spangle. The complement of the dew point is 178 below the average of the month in the two preceding years. Two hours later Bazarov re-entered his bedroom in a state of dishevelment and despondency, and with his boots soaked with dew. The drops of dew which the artificer had sprinkled on the flowers were diamonds. On the 14th we tried to ascertain the dew point, but failed, as in previous instances. Heavy drops of dew still hung on the blue-eyed grass, sparkling in the sunlight like happy tears. It is true, Zenothemis, that the soul is nourished on ecstasy, as the cicada is nourished on dew. The temperature of the surface when the moisture first forms is the dew point. The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation begins is called the dew point. The dew in the meadows and the pearls on the wings of butterflies began to glisten. It is generally supposed that dew is formed most copiously in the mornings and evenings. The covering acts as a screen, which prevents the heat from radiating to the dew point. Then Love took wing, and from his pinions shed On all the multitude a nectarous dew. The relative humidity is simply the ratio of the vapor pressure at the dew point to the pressure of saturated vapor. An intoxicatingly sweet cool breath of dew and slumbering flowers transformed all things into unutterable blessings. Show More Sentences Slim and lissome, the dew of childhood was still on her lips, and the mist of it in her eyes. But the duration of their sovereignty was as a summer cloud or morning dew. The dew lay heavy on the laurel leaves of the thickets, and the breeze was perfumed with the penetrant fragrance of many blossoms. They therefore do not lose heat enough to sink their temperature to the dew point. His idea of color was a peony, with the dew of early morning on its petals. Wou'd to God it may prove false, and that it may vanish like the dew of the morning. That decorousness, that brightness, melted off what lay behind, as frosty dew melts off grass. What was that loathsome red dew that gleamed, wet and glistening, on one of the hands, as though the canvas had sweated blood? Their eyes sparkled like dew on meadowsweet on a fair morning. Defiling the trunks of the trees were broad maculations of crimson, and blood dripped like dew from their foliage. He thought that a balmy dew was falling on his poor wounded heart. Their words rejoiced Ferko's heart, and he waited impatiently till evening should come and he could rub the precious dew on his sightless eyes. If the temperature falls below the saturation point, dew will be formed. For, see you, it was our custom to lick the dew from the oar-blades, the gunwales, the thwarts, and the inside planking. The day was bright and jocund, and the morning dew still lay upon the grass. He was this year but his preparation was bad as he had to have a dew claw off and it wasn't to be. She had much to say of dew and roses, turtledoves and the arrows of Cupid. It was, however, enough to produce dew for some mornings to come. On Sunday morning I rose early and got out of Black Hawk while the dew was still heavy on the long meadow grasses. Genius is the morning dew that keeps the world from perishing in drought. Show More Sentences As the dew of Hermon, running down upon the mountains of Zion! Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat. Here long ago the girls of Sou, the darlings of the King, Dabbled their shining skirts with dew from the gracious blooms of Spring. Two of the simple concepts that go into the air-drying process are airflow volume and the dew point of the airflow. Environmental factors included altitude, temperature, dew point, wind speed, precipitation, and barometric pressure. The explanation for sweating or condensation on the glass relates to the dew point temperature of the air around the glass. At the dew point, droplets of water begin forming on dust particles, creating the cloud. We stumbled through the underbrush wet with dew, our way lighted by a score of torchbearers who surrounded us. Once more may our eyes be gladdened with the pearly, orient dew! Have you seen the primal dew ere the sun has lipped the pearl? It is both the vehicle that provides the low dew point air for drying of the resin and it carries the heat from the process heater to the resin. These dryer, by alternating beds, experience varying dew points and temperatures, throughout the cycle. It is this blend that will produce dew points that vary widely at the same pressure from one sample to another. The unit scans critical temperatures, dew points and other valuable data every 15 seconds and then stores it for 40 hours. Nonsense must have the dew on it, or it is good for nothing. Not only all night, but all day, has the dew lain upon its purity. She was walking down a lane, her short skirts brushed by the morning dew. When that begins to take place the thermometer will show the dew point. He would go struggling through the pasture, unable to see twenty-five feet ahead of him, the cold dew or snow soaking through his overalls, his shoes becoming wet. Tiny globules of dew were forming across it like seed pearls. Show More Sentences As I looked, one of them snorted, rose and shook the dew from his hide. Born of roses, fed on dew, Charms and potions canst thou brew? It all looked like enchantment beneath the sparkling sheen of dew. The dew would be falling upon the turf, lights would be beginning to shine forth from the huts on the pond's margin, and the cattle would be wending their way home. The air inlet and outlet dew points were measured by hygrometers. He thought of mornings in Winesburg and of how the stones in the graveled driveway by Banker White's house were wet with dew and glistened in the morning light. Violet and bloodroot, dogwood and purple Judas tree were all bespangled, bespangled with dew. They were fragile, as if of tissue, and were beaded at the crinkled tips with dew. What beckoning ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew? The Burneys, however, can do no more for us than shed that auroral dew. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of dew? Words that rhyme with dew What is the past tense of dew? What is the plural of dew? What is the adverb for dew? What is the adjective for dew? What is the noun for dew? Translations for dew Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words devoutness devoutly devout devours devouring devourer Dew DEW Dewali dewan dewar dewater 3-letter Words Starting With d de