How do you use Moistened in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Moistened meaning
simple past and past participle of moisten
Using Moistened
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of moisten
- In the example corpus, moistened often appears in combinations such as: moistened with, be moistened, until moistened.
Context around Moistened
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moistened
- In this selection, "moistened" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, evenly, listen, words, finger, thumb and bongo stand out and add context to how "moistened" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include another sheet moistened with a and could be moistened with water. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moistened" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moistened
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Add melted butter, and pulse until moistened. (7 words)
Hoisting a moistened thumb into the wind would have provided an equally accurate forecast. (14 words)
Listen, moistened bongo thieves distributin' shotguns is no basis for a system of government. (14 words)
In beiju (or biju), the tapioca is moistened, strained through a sieve to become a coarse flour, then sprinkled onto a hot griddle or pan, where the heat makes the starchy grains fuse into a flatbread which resembles a grainy pancake. (41 words)
In a bowl combine 1/2 cup melted butter and Oreo crumbs until evenly moistened, then press the mixture in the bottom of a 9x13-inch dish, set in the freezer to firm while making cheesecake layer. (37 words)
His first recorded experiment was the construction of a voltaic pile with seven ha'penny coins, stacked together with seven disks of sheet zinc, and six pieces of paper moistened with salt water. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Add melted butter, and pulse until moistened.
It was traditionally made with stale bread that was moistened with milk or cream, and baked in a slow oven.
Thirty-five years Rose held a moistened finger in the air, trying to gauge the winds of public opinion.
When you breathe through your nose, the air is heated, filtered, and moistened before it reaches your lungs.
Then whisk together eggs, oil and vanilla in a bowl; add to flour mixture, stirring just until moistened.
Hoisting a moistened thumb into the wind would have provided an equally accurate forecast.
In a bowl combine 1/2 cup melted butter and Oreo crumbs until evenly moistened, then press the mixture in the bottom of a 9x13-inch dish, set in the freezer to firm while making cheesecake layer.
A standard seed tray and cells were filled with the same potting soil I had success with last year, peppers and tomatoes planted and moistened.
Listen, moistened bongo thieves distributin' shotguns is no basis for a system of government.
The football world is a poorer place for his passing; the warmth and dignity of his widow’s words moistened my eyes almost as much as reading of his death.
We used reusable cloth wipes with water, not the disposable pre-moistened ones TFA is about.
Compressed earth blocks main Compressed earth blocks are made mostly from slightly moistened local soils compressed with a mechanical hydraulic press or manual lever press.
Fortune cookie toilet paper, with words of wisdom that appear when the paper is moistened, has become popular among university students in Italy and Greece.
He instead decided to try to physically transfer some ink from the front of the original to the back of another sheet, moistened with a solvent, and pressed to the original.
His first recorded experiment was the construction of a voltaic pile with seven ha'penny coins, stacked together with seven disks of sheet zinc, and six pieces of paper moistened with salt water.
In beiju (or biju), the tapioca is moistened, strained through a sieve to become a coarse flour, then sprinkled onto a hot griddle or pan, where the heat makes the starchy grains fuse into a flatbread which resembles a grainy pancake.
In these pipes, sometimes called " cauld wind pipes ", air is not heated or moistened by the player's breathing, so bellows-driven bagpipes can use more refined or delicate reeds.
It is a method of artificially raising the water table to allow the soil to be moistened from below the plants' root zone.
Paints could be mixed with gum arabic as a binder and pressed into cakes, which could be moistened with water when needed.
The adhesive or gum on a water-activated stamp must be moistened (usually by licking, thus the stamps are also known as "lick and stick").
Common combinations with moistened
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- moistened with 4×
- be moistened 3×
- until moistened 2×
- was moistened 2×
- and moistened 2×
- slightly moistened 2×
- is moistened 2×