Sentence examples for moist surface from inspiring English sources

Red clay may suggest a sticky, moist surface, like the raw materials of a pottery class.

The seed had only to be strewn over a sufficiently moist surface to ensure some kind of crop under normal conditions.

As a myxamoeba moves across a moist surface, it engulfs bacteria and eventually fuses with a second myxamoeba, thereby initiating the development of a multinucleate plasmodium.

In the central United States, supercells typically have a broad, intense updraft that enters from the southeast and brings moist surface air into the storm.

The center sits on the banks of the Saint Croix, and moist surface winds had been blowing across the river from east to west — seemingly an unusual flow at such latitudes.

In the central United States, severe thunderstorms commonly occur in the springtime, when cool westerly winds at middle levels (3,000 to 10,000 metres [10,000 to 33,000 feet] in altitude) move over warm and moist surface air flowing northward from the Gulf of Mexico.

Mold spores, which are constantly wafting in the atmosphere, grab a toehold on moist surfaces.

Human pathogens sometimes remain on moist surfaces after irrigation, but they usually die as the surfaces dry, Dr. Robinson said.

Sometimes when they cannot find plants, phytophagous insects probe moist surfaces (e.g., perspiring skin) in search of appropriate food fluids.

On land, cyanobacteria are common in soil down to a depth of 1 m (39 inches) or more; they also grow on moist surfaces of rocks and trees, where they appear in the form of cushions or layers.

Under other circumstances, the air trapped in the first kilometre above Earth's surface may pick up moisture from the sea or other moist surfaces, and layers of cloud may form in areas near the ground up to a height of about 1 km (0.6 mile).