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Moisture in sentence

88 examples of Moisture in a sentence

Tell everybody across the city to bring all their containers and come and take as much water as they can stock up on, especially before the winter season hits; the machine doesn't extract moisture in freezing temperatures.
Wearing special skin-tight suits to dissipate heat and recycle moisture, the travelers aren’t worried about dying of thirst.
It squeeze the moisture hidden in the sand.
When I took this picture, the window was frozen because of the moisture of the night.
(Motor sound) It's trying to walk on the coastal terrain, a sandy area, but depending on the moisture content or the grain size of the sand, the foot's soil sinkage model changes, so it tries to adapt its gait to successfully cross over these kind of things.
This plant is called the Welwitschia, and it lives only in parts of coastal Namibia and Angola, where it's uniquely adapted to collect moisture from mist coming off the sea.
I do not believe you can watch through to the end without a wisp of moisture in that hardened eye.
Not too often does an actress bring moisture to the corner of my eyes.
Advanced materials like nanolaminates (edible lipids) can, when sprayed on food, provide protection from air or moisture and reduce spoilage.
And the “Internet of things” will rationalize production processes by detecting potential failures early, boost crop yields by measuring the moisture of fields, and dramatically reduce the cost of remotely monitoring patients’ health.
But the United Nations climate panel’s latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite: for “North America, there is medium confidence that there has been an overall slight tendency toward less dryness (wetting trend with more soil moisture and runoff).”
Soil nutrients are being depleted, soil moisture is falling, temperatures are rising, and disease pressures are worsening.
A second promising alternative source of fresh water is fog: a vertical mesh can be used to capture moisture from the air, with the droplets accumulating in a tank or distribution system.
Astrophysicist Adam Frank succinctly explained: “greater warmth means more moisture in the air which means stronger precipitation.”
Such activities threaten to suck moisture from other regions, potentially affecting Asia’s monsoons.
This is even true globally over the past half-century, as one of the most recent scientific studies of actual soil moisture shows: “there is an overall small wetting trend in global soil moisture.”
High-intensity hurricanes are becoming more frequent, and major storms are causing more flooding, because of the increased heat transfer from the warming waters of the oceans, the greater moisture in warmer air, and the rise in sea levels – all made more extreme by human-induced climate change.
As the planet continues to warm, increased moisture in the air will translate into even more severe and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes.
In the meantime, farmers in arid regions need better access to existing drought-tolerant crops, such as the high-protein legume cowpea, in order to protect soil and preserve moisture.
His face now wore a tender expression, and she thought she detected in his voice the sound of tears, and their moisture on her hand.
The moisture of the rain, shattered into minute drops, filled the air.
But his torment was especially aggravated by the moisture.
Below, the sump, a cesspool ten metres deep, filled with this streaming water, also exhaled its muddy moisture.
On the flags a thin layer of white sand drank up the constant moisture of this water-soaked land.
There had been a sudden thaw; the sky was earth-coloured, the walls were sticky with greenish moisture, and the roads were covered with pitch-like mud, a special kind of mud peculiar to the coal country, as black as diluted soot, thick and tenacious enough to pull off her sabots.
The bench, not properly smoothed, was soaked in moisture, and so slippery that they had to hold themselves on vigorously to avoid slipping off.
The surgeon removed his spectacles to wipe an unusual moisture from his eyes, and proceeded carefully to the discharge of his duty.
A slight flush was on the face of the patient as the doctor entered the room, and the latter advanced promptly and laid his fingers on the pulse of the youth, beckoning to him to be silent, while he muttered,-"Growing symptoms of a febrile pulse - no, no, my dear George, you must remain quiet and dumb; though your eyes look better, and your skin has even a moisture."
The surgeon, who had been in imminent peril, was too much bewildered to reply instantly, but wiping the moisture from his forehead, and clearing his lungs from the vapor he had inhaled, he said piteously,-"Ah! it is all over!
The sweat has started from limbs that seemed already drained of their moisture; and if I ventured to the hole that admitted air through grates of iron to look out upon the smiles of nature, which God has bestowed for the meanest of His creatures, the gibbet has glared before my eyes, like an evil conscience harrowing the soul of a dying man.
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