How to Use dew in a Sentence

dew

noun

• The grass was wet with the morning dew.
• The air mass is still very dry, with dew points in the teens.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• The air is rather dry with dew points in the upper teens to 20s.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
• There’s nary a cloud in the sky as dew points fall off through the 50s and even into the 40s.
  — Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 7 June 2020
• Ewan in his car pyjamas and the taste of dew in the air.
  — Hazlitt, 14 Dec. 2022
• The dew points drop on Wednesday, with a rush of dry air.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022
• The windy chill along with very low dew points (in the 20s) feel more like March than April.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
• But the grounds crew still has to deal with one scourge: morning dew.
  — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The turtle had lumbered over the grass, leaving a trail through the dew.
  — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• Very dry dew points keep the air feeling quite crisp as well.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
• This is still a dry air mass, with dew points in the single digits for much of the day.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
• Thick pillows of fog roll onshore and coat the leaves of rare plants with dew.
  — Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• The air is dry and autumnally crisp, with dew points in the 30s.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• The rest of the week and this weekend will be more humid with dew points climbing through the 50s and low 60s.
  — Hartford Courant, 11 May 2022
• The wind combined with low dew points is the reason for the fire weather watch.
  — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
• Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The sun was up now, a thin disk that offered no warmth, even as dew started to drip from the hedges.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Later, Hite reached back down to wipe morning dew from the stone’s face.
  — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2019
• By the time the sun had burned off the morning dew, a Buick Enclave emerged from the Gillespie compound.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
• Still just that hint of humidity (dew points near 60 to the low 60s).
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
• There will be some cloudiness in the mornings along with a little bit of fog and heavy amounts of dew.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Prune plants in the morning, after any dew or overnight rain has dried off the foliage.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2022
• The air mass will also be very dry, with dew points dropping into the teens.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
• Roth, the kid from Newark, strolling now alongside stone fences, his sneakers wet with dew?
  — Vogue, 23 May 2018
• Temperatures will be seasonably cool with highs in the 70s and the dew points will be in the 50s.
  — Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2022
• If the rocket launch is scheduled in the early morning, dew can form on the lens and fog the image.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2018
• While makeup can help amp up the dew, Cheng says the key is focusing on skin prep.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 18 May 2021
• Wide coppery pants had a sheen that evoked morning dew.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Like many herbs, sage is best harvested in the morning after the dew has dried for peak flavor.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
• Waiting overnight will mean morning dew will delay the process even further.
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024