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Wetted in sentence

12 examples of Wetted in a sentence

When he reached a dry place he sat down on a hummock, took off his boot and emptied it, then went back to the marsh, drank a little of the rusty water, wetted the heated barrels and bathed his face and hands.
Still invisible in the absence of the sun, the dew on the tall scented hemp, from which the male plants had already been weeded out, wetted Levin's legs and his blouse to above his belt.
she said, wiping with her handkerchief the hand which the horse had wetted as it took the sugar.
To reach the upbrow they had to walk doubled up, again wetted to the shoulders.
At first the water came up to their ankles; then it wetted their knees.
He said people in ships always wetted the sails before they put them up.
So I wetted it; but that only made matters worse than they were before.
Herbert tried to console him by observing, that if they had found the matches, they would, very likely, have been wetted by the sea and useless.
The water with which they wetted his lips revived him gradually.
The Lady Rowena, who had been absent to attend an evening mass at a distant church, had but just returned, and was changing her garments, which had been wetted by the storm.
The Princess, on seeing them, breathed quickly and immediately burst into tears, then she at once laughed and ran up to them with energy such as Levin never expected from her, and putting her arms round his head kissed him and wetted his cheeks with her tears.
By the time the boatwas at her usual moorings in the harbour the whole town was buried inthis fine mist, which did not fall but yet wetted everything like rain,and glided and rolled along the roofs and streets like the flow of ariver.