How to Use dew in a Sentence

dew

noun
  • The grass was wet with the morning dew.
  • The evening smells like sweet dew.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • There are drops of dew all over my tip.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • What makes hands so quick to lose the dew of youth?
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 June 2026
  • The air mass is still very dry, with dew points in the teens.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Evening dew should aid the chasing side.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Sure enough, Krebs shows me which rocks catch dew or rain.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Very dry dew points keep the air feeling quite crisp as well.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The sky above was blue, not a cloud in sight, the green grass still damp with dew.
    — Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Wait until the dew is dried or a few days after a heavy rain.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Wait until the dew is dried or a few days after a heavy rain.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The air is rather dry with dew points in the upper teens to 20s.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Thick pillows of fog roll onshore and coat the leaves of rare plants with dew.
    — Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • This is still a dry air mass, with dew points in the single digits for much of the day.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Avoid mowing in the early morning or evening when dew may be on the grass.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2025
  • Avoid early morning when the flowers are wet with dew.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2026
  • The wind combined with low dew points is the reason for the fire weather watch.
    — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The turtle had lumbered over the grass, leaving a trail through the dew.
    — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The air mass will also be very dry, with dew points dropping into the teens.
    — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Rain can be harsh, whereas dew is soft, dropping gently to the ground.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Later, Hite reached back down to wipe morning dew from the stone’s face.
    — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Those dew points will begin to rise again during the weekend, along with rain chances.
    — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 7 June 2017
  • Prune plants in the morning, after any dew or overnight rain has dried off the foliage.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2022
  • The sun was up now, a thin disk that offered no warmth, even as dew started to drip from the hedges.
    — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • Harvesting is best done in the morning when dew has dried and the leaves are no longer wet.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There will be some cloudiness in the mornings along with a little bit of fog and heavy amounts of dew.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Early morning tends to be the worst time of the day to mow because the grass is still damp from dew.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Early morning tends to be the worst time of the day to mow because the grass is still damp from dew.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
  • Roth, the kid from Newark, strolling now alongside stone fences, his sneakers wet with dew?
    — Vogue, 23 May 2018
  • Likewise, do not mow when the lawn is wet from dew or irrigation.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 23 June 2026

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