How to Use wetter in a Sentence

wetter

noun
  • Life might have been there when that planet was much warmer and wetter.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The rainfall target for the day is about half an inch in the wetter spots.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
  • That tends to lead to cooler and wetter in the region at this time of year.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But some of the year’s events signal the warmer, wetter shifts in climate and what might be ahead.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • But this spring offered an anomaly from the overall trend of wetter springs.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Even a slightly wetter outlook comes as welcome change for the parched state.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Conditions tend to be warmer and wetter in the park's western half.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Some years are just warmer or cooler, or wetter or drier, than others.
    — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The grass will green up when cooler, wetter weather returns in fall.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • The wetter the rainy season that precedes the bloom, the more vibrant the flowers.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The outlook for next week is starting to look cooler and wetter than average.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Crop stress in the western Corn Belt is being balanced in part by wetter crops in the east.
    — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The state is hotter and wetter, and what has long been held under ice and rock is emerging through thawing and erosion.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • One model favors a track that’s farther to the west, with colder, wetter results.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • And eons ago, there was a world warmer, wetter and more aquamarine with rivers, lakes, oceans and perhaps even life on its surface.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2021
  • On the Gulf Coast and in the mid-Atlantic, the wettest days keep getting wetter.
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021
  • At least the wetter pattern will keep June temperatures in check.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 15 June 2023
  • The thickness and size of the shells suggest they were laid in a wetter, more humid environment.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 Mar. 2026
  • So, while Monday is all about braving the cold, the next couple of days bring a wetter, but warmer pattern.
    — Justin Lewis, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • However, the models are trending wetter again by the second week.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Southeast Asia has been spared from a choking haze in the last three years as wetter-than-normal dry seasons curb fires.
    — Chandra Asmara, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The month was cooler and wetter than usual and then temperatures started to boil.
    — oregonlive, 27 July 2022
  • For some working in downtown Chicago, daily commutes are about to get a whole lot wetter.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But then the wetter side of the equation is more of a problem out here in the Midwest, as well as other parts of the world.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2022
  • And think about if the decision will still be a good one under a wetter, hotter, more stormy, and variable climate.
    — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The park also notes that during wetter weather, tortoises are more likely to emerge and can appear like rocks in the road.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The masa inside is a little thicker, fluffier and wetter, and delicious.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The upper Midwest tends to be drier, while the Northeast tends to be a little wetter.
    — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Some scientists even think the smell of snow is shifting, too, becoming stronger and sharper as a result of warmer, wetter air.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The rain marks the start of a pattern shift that will bring cooler, wetter weather through at least Thursday, Sweet said.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021

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