Sentence examples for have moistened from inspiring English sources

Keats's planet "swims" also because tears have moistened the astronomer's eyes, just as Coleridge, in "Frost at Midnight," recalls his misery at school, "mine eye / Fixed with mock study on my swimming book" when homesickness made him weep.

I imagine if I had have been at Glastonbury that year, I would have just seen Björk, which would have moistened the mind, and then chosen Orbital rather than Paul Weller, for reasons to do with the future, recent history, Kraftwerk, post-minimalism, Star Trek and their post-space age, techno-fantasy Orbital 2 album which I was quite partial to at the time.

A recent group of Falun Gong prisoners taken to the Lei Feng memorial, it said, spontaneously repeated and copied down inscriptions from the diary like: "If you are a drop of water, you have moistened an inch of soil; if you are a ray of light, you have brightened a foot of darkness".

Stir until the dry ingredients have moistened.

Add the melted butter to the bowl and toss with a fork until the butter has moistened the crumb mixture.

Once you've moistened the loaf, stick it in the oven for a few minutes and watch it magically turn chewy and delicious once more.

She just set her glass down on the counter, patted her lips where the wine had moistened them, and said, "I want a baby".

Thus, the farmer usually attempts tillage of such soils only after a slow rain has moistened the clods and made them friable.

I seem to remember that in Norway alcohol is poured over the split sponge, but here I've moistened the cake with a strawberry purée.

Add the water and use a small knife to cut the liquid into the mixture until all of the flour has moistened.

I had once tried to study the menu in its lit case near the entrance, and as I stared at the words the sting of my own exile had moistened my eyes.