adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tearful/moist/misty (= feeling that you want to cry )
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As she left a village, people waved at her with tearful eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Misty people in overcoats stood against the wall.
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As we walked out of the house, we looked back one more time, a little misty -eyed
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It was a gray and misty spring morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Becoming misty overnight with fog over the hills.
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Descents from Moughton need care in misty conditions.
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It was still misty but the sun was gathering strength and the mist had acquired a pearly hue promising better things.
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She had fallen asleep, her mouth against the window, steaming it in a perspiration of misty gray film.
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The Galaxy was high in the sky and its misty lens shape stretched lazily from horizon to horizon.
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Toward evening, the weather turned and, as they approached the dock, the sky was gray and misty .
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We had misty rain as we started out but the sun came out just as we got to the rapids.