Explore Wetting through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like leak or urination. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Wetting meaning
present participle and gerund of wet
Using Wetting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of wet
- Useful related words include: change of state, leak, making water, passing water.
- In the example corpus, wetting often appears in combinations such as: wetting the, wetting and, by wetting.
Context around Wetting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wetting
- In this selection, "wetting" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bed, advises, avoid, down, themselves and nightmares stand out and add context to how "wetting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include punishment for wetting the bed and a little wetting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wetting" sits close to words such as adjoint, affixes and agonisingly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wetting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He was punishing (?) her for bed wetting. (7 words)
Following this, she advises wetting the area with a garden hose. (11 words)
I just kept wetting down any areas that might catch fire. (11 words)
Washington told the outlet that a counselor forced him to spend the night sleeping outside in the cold by himself as a punishment for wetting the bed, and that counselors threw urine at him they used when there wasn’t a bathroom. (42 words)
Prosecutors allege she kept the five-year-old girl as a household slave and stood by and did nothing when her husband chained the child outside in the sun as a punishment for wetting the bed. (36 words)
Get the hose or watering can’s spout close to the base of plants and aim the water at the soil to avoid wetting leaves as much as you can. (30 words)
Weren't conservatives wetting themselves because angry citizens were confronting Republicans in public places? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
For the children, she said, there's bed wetting, nightmares and "deep trauma".
One way of preventing excess exposure is by wetting down the surfaces before contractors break ground, thus limiting airborne contaminants or dust.
Following this, she advises wetting the area with a garden hose.
Get the hose or watering can’s spout close to the base of plants and aim the water at the soil to avoid wetting leaves as much as you can.
Students must continue wetting the wood until the entire basket is woven, and then it can dry.
That account begins with his boyhood self being brutally beaten, repeatedly, for the crime of wetting his bed.
Dripped water is less subject to evaporation and lessens the chance of diseases by not wetting plant leaves.
I just kept wetting down any areas that might catch fire.
Therefore, children often express undesirable behaviours like clinginess, bed wetting, difficulty sleeping, thumb sucking, temper tantrums and difficulty concentrating.
These are designed specially to make sure that your baby sleeps dry and comfortable even after wetting the bed.
Washington told the outlet that a counselor forced him to spend the night sleeping outside in the cold by himself as a punishment for wetting the bed, and that counselors threw urine at him they used when there wasn’t a bathroom.
He was punishing (?) her for bed wetting.
Prosecutors allege she kept the five-year-old girl as a household slave and stood by and did nothing when her husband chained the child outside in the sun as a punishment for wetting the bed.
Schreiner said he ended up in an orphanage where he was repeatedly sexually molested, trauma that led to bed-wetting until he was a teenager.
He said the club still spends R8 000 monthly on wetting agents to treat the chemicals in the water.
If a five-year-old younger sibling, for example, has already outgrown bedwetting, it does not mean that the eight-year-old is wetting the bed on purpose.
Pat fans are wetting themselves, Chiefs looking good on both sides.
Weren't conservatives wetting themselves because angry citizens were confronting Republicans in public places?
We then realized that we were in for a bit more then just a little wetting.
What makes Mr. Trump different is that he just doesn’t care what the bed-wetting caucus says about his policies.
Common combinations with wetting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wetting the 7×
- wetting and 5×
- by wetting 4×
- bed wetting 3×
- and wetting 3×
- wetting down 2×
- of wetting 2×
- for wetting 2×
- wetting themselves 2×
- wetting effect 2×