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How to use misty in a sentence

23 example sentences · adjective

Misty means covered in mist; foggy. Example: “It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!”

Examples of misty by meaning

adjectiveCovered in mist; foggy.

  • It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!

adjectiveDim; vague; obscure.

  • a misty memory of his childhood
  • Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.2005 February 7, Ben Ratliff, “New CD's”, in The New York Times
  • Segovia’s English rocky, but she had only the mistiest notions of what college was all about.2010 July 23, Joseph Berger, “The Latino Lag”, in The New York Times

adjectiveWith tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.

  • Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.

More sentences with misty

  • If it starts getting misty, put your sidelights on.From the entry sidelight
  • It could turn a little misty in places towards dawn.From the entry in places
  • A rich, dark odor of sweet earth, coming at them through a misty rain.2003, Pete Hamill, chapter 38, in Forever: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, →ISBN. From the entry scree
  • Misty wants Ash, so she uses her bike as an excuse to follow him around.1999 January 12, Joe Bessey, “Misty & Brock”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet). From the entry Poképhiliac
  • Please look at this lakeful of misty rain like water soaking me through, as soaking through a bird's feather.2006, Zhilin Bian, The carving of insects, page 42. From the entry lakeful
  • Let us not make a misty, swift, cavelike terror of the unknown and a meek thing of the known.a. 1979, Eli Siegel, “The World, Guilt and Self-Conflict”, in Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry subterraneity
  • 'I reckon he's balmy,' Claud said, and Bert grinned darkly, rolling his misty eye slowly round in its socket.1958 April 1, Roald Dahl, “Parson's Pleasure”, in Esquire, page 148. From the entry balmy
  • Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed.1944, Douglas Stewart, A Girl with Red Hair, and Other Stories, page 60. From the entry hilarious
  • The impression of her familiarity was misty and dreamlike.1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg. From the entry check up
  • They will get misty eyed and tell you that they believe families should worship together; after all, “the family that prays together stays together.”2011, Calvin Miller, Letters to a Young Pastor. From the entry the family that prays together stays together
  • The misty hills do not willingly nourish and nurture the human species any more than bongols willingly drag loads uphill for it.1998, Harold Strachan, Way up, way out, page 88. From the entry ja well no fine
  • But the very next day, by an unreasoning impulse to which he yielded almost mechanically, without reluctation, he found himself seated before the misty orb.1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla. From the entry reluctation
  • His eyes misty with unshed tears Master Tommy came at her call for their big sister's word was law with the twins.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry unshed
  • It has been rather misty for several mornings, so I told my pal to get ready and we would hop it the next day.1918 June 15, Private John A. Scott, “A Prisoner of War”, in The Saturday Evening Post, page 28. From the entry hop it
  • Amid the grounds of the old Summer Palace, a seventeen-arch bridge rising over the misty waters of K'un-ming Lake links an artificial island to the shore.1978, David Bonavia, Peking, Time-Life Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 86. From the entry K'un-ming Lake
  • In the typical Sword and Sorcery novel, the setting resembles the misty landscape of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in that larger-than-life heroes struggle against strange and nightmarish antagonists.1972, Don Davidson, “Sword and Sorcery Fiction: An Annotated Book List”, in The English Journal, volume 61, number 1, page 44. From the entry sword and sorcery
  • Swerving and twisting away from the misty lower air, he rises to the first faint warmth of sun, feels delicately for winghold on the sheer fall of sky.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 39. From the entry winghold
  • The extreme remoteness of the place was apparent from the veritable sea of tenantless mountains which formed the background and stretched away toward a misty horizon.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry tenantless

Meaning of misty

  1. adjective Covered in mist; foggy.
  2. adjective Dim; vague; obscure.
  3. adjective With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.

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Questions about misty in a sentence

How do you use misty in a sentence?
Misty is used as an adjective. For example: “It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!”
What is a short sentence with misty?
“a misty memory of his childhood”
What does misty mean?
Misty means covered in mist; foggy.

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