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How to use mist in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Mist means water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.). Example: “It was difficult to see through the morning mist.”

Examples of mist by meaning

nounWater or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.).

  • It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

nounA layer of fine droplets or particles.

  • There was an oily mist on the lens.

nounAnything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

  • Already, mist veils my eyes.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Hooktail...

verbTo form mist.

  • It's misting this morning.

verbTo spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

  • I mist my tropical plants every morning.

verbTo rain in very fine droplets.

  • When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.1996, Don McCabe, Word Families in Sentence Context, AVKO Foundation, →ISBN, page 235
  • On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance.2013 April 2, Don Pendleton, Nuclear Intent, Gold Eagle, →ISBN, page 238

verbTo cover with a mist.

  • The lens was misted.

verbTo be covered by tears.

  • My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

More sentences with mist

  • The clouds and mist were soon enough dispelled by the sun.From the entry dispel
  • What was that tackle about? The red mist still descends on Beckham occasionally.From the entry red mist
  • The bathroom mirror misted up when he opened the shower door.From the entry mist up
  • Years later, the song we played at our wedding still made me mist up.From the entry mist up
  • A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.From the entry waterfall
  • Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke.From the entry aerosol
  • The mist rises from the lake at eventide.From the entry eventide
  • Rain clouds smirred the horizon, but for now the grey mists above were content to drift on.2022, John MacKay, The Road Dance. From the entry smirr
  • However, on the morning in question, there was a ground mist which might have played a role.2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 78. From the entry ground mist
  • The field was covered with a densening mist, or at least it looked like mist.2017, Bolivar Beato, Pangaea; the End of Days, Lilith. From the entry densening
  • It can invert entire worlds and yet appear as no more than morning mist.2016, Thomas Corfield, The Alchemists Of Vra, Panda Books Australia, →ISBN. From the entry pedantics
  • Architecture Xenoculture is the problematization of work produced by embracing the proliferation of this mist of fear.2013, Juan Azulay, Actar Publishers. From the entry xenoculture
  • We have only sometimes mist but there is no mist belt as on the Canary Islands.2012, Frank Klötzli, Gian-Reto Walther, Conference on Recent Shifts in Vegetation Boundaries of Deciduous Forests, Especially Due to…. From the entry mist belt
  • Kelly remarked that visibility was a huge problem on both stages as his windscreen misted over.2012 June 3, “Colm Murphy secures victory in Munster Rally”, in RTE. From the entry mist over
  • A third method, aeroponics, involves misting or spraying plant roots with a nutrient solution.2012, Rhona McAdam, Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto. From the entry fogponics
  • The “black mists” of Japan did not die with Yoshio Kodama.2012, David E. Kaplan, Alec Dubro, Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, page 97. From the entry kuromaku
  • When the sun shines over Kentucky's Cumberland Falls, the mist creates a rainbow on most days.2011, Colleen Ryckert Cook, Kentucky: Past and Present, page 9. From the entry moonbow
  • But the mists had not managed to suck from them their testudinarious colours.2011, Angela Huth, Sun Child. From the entry testudinarious
  • The Fortune Teller gazed his wondering green eye in the orb of clouded mist.2010, Richard Serna, The Empress of Darkness, →ISBN. From the entry starlet
  • And then out of the mist, unrangeable, unreachable, the onagers started firing.2009, William Napier, Attila: The Judgement, →ISBN. From the entry unrangeable
  • The mist that lipped against the wall behind him hung overhead like a ceiling, hiding any stars.2008, Julie Czerneda, Riders of the Storm, New York: Daw Books, Interlude, page 406. From the entry lip
  • The lantern well fits the mist of design from the rocky swing of flying whiles.2007, Matthew Woods, The Chrysalis Time. From the entry workling
  • She pressed his hand and was gone in a mist of vetiver, abruptly as the other evening.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612. From the entry vetiver
  • Every childhood seems to have exactly such a juvenile in its midst and mists.2005, Markus Zusak, “The Kiss (a Childhood Decision Maker)”, in The Book Thief, Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, →ISBN; republished New York…. From the entry juvenile
  • The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult.2005, James A. Arieti, Philosophy in the Ancient World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxi. From the entry floruit
  • The legions of the Wee Free were receding into the mists of Gaeldom.1991, Jan Webster, I Only Can Dance With You, page 96. From the entry Gaeldom
  • Dark mists swirled round them and elephantine shapes lurked indistinctly in the shadows.1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry elephantine
  • Behind me the forest stood wrapped in mist, its scents still sleeping.1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 357. From the entry scent
  • Dimly through the mists they could descry the long arm of the mountains rising on their left.1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, page 15. From the entry descry
  • In the reddish mist his shadow flitted darkly across the mirrors on the walls.1930, Ivan Lukash, chapter VIII, in Natalie Duddington, transl., The Flames of Moscow: Translated from the Russian, London: Peter Davies…. From the entry darkly
  • Looking back, it seemed to me that a slight oleaginous mist was still hovering round the chair.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine. From the entry oleaginous

Meaning of mist

  1. noun Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.).
  2. noun A layer of fine droplets or particles.
  3. noun Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

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Questions about mist in a sentence

How do you use mist in a sentence?
Mist is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It was difficult to see through the morning mist.”
What is a short sentence with mist?
“It's misting this morning.”
What does mist mean?
Mist means water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mist (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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