Sentence examples for barely moist from inspiring English sources
Be sure the soil stays barely moist, not waterlogged.
Carefully keep the soil barely moist, neither dry nor soggy.
Water them once, then keep them cool and barely moist.
The mixture should stay barely moist, so water frequently from the bottom with room temperature water.
Line cardboard boxes or terra-cotta pots with newspaper and layer the tubers with barely moist sawdust, sand or peat.
Keep them just slightly moist.
A slab of swordfish was moist, mammoth yet barely visible under a delectably salty cloak of capers, olives and tomato.
Before I get to the authentic Cuban dishes, I must mention the most memorable entree of all: cumin-cilantro red snapper, so moist I could barely distinguish the flesh from the silken lemon butter sauce.
My only advice on grilling the cabbage leaf is to have a few other things ready to grill afterward, because you do need a quite-hot fire to char that moist leaf while barely steaming the fish inside of it, and it would be a shame to waste those coals.
