Sentence examples for go wet from inspiring English sources

Nor did repeal make all states go "wet": it remained illegal to buy or sell alcohol in some states for years — Mississippi did not legalize it until 1966.

Gibbsboro is also considering whether to go wet, and Delanco Township has the wet-or-dry question on the November ballot.

"There's not much you could do other than tell them to go wet a towel and keep it over your face," said Alan Reiss, the former director of the world trade department of the Port Authority.

The ballot question of permitting the sale of alcoholic beverages in Grant County is of no small moment, as only 30 of the state's 120 counties have opted to go wet since Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

"We have been receiving a number of phone calls from dry towns on what the procedure is to go wet," said David N. Bregenzer, counsel to the director of the state's Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

Almost seven decades after the end of Prohibition, 75 of Kentucky's 120 counties remain dry by local choice, but the pressures to go wet -- or "moist," the new limited imbibing option devised by frustrated state legislators -- are mounting against the state's temperance leaders.

Don't go wetting yourself and punching your Windows-loving friends in the face just yet.

Answers of men and women to reporter's question "How do you feel about the country going wet"?

What can I do with that?" She took a long, shuddering breath and her eyes went wet.

The second place to get a liquor licence when the city went "wet" again was the Drake hotel.

The question of going wet will be back before voters on Tuesday in dry Grant County, once rural but now rapidly suburbanizing, with this community one of the fastest growing.