How to Use misty in a Sentence

misty

adjective

• I've a misty understanding of the issue but not so much that I could vote intelligently.
• The weather in the area was cloudy and misty at the time of the crash.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• The way the bright light made the white walls seem misty blue.
  — Jenna Birch, Health.com, 20 May 2020
• Out of the window, the cold and misty lagoon meets my gaze.
  — Gianluca Longo, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2024
• This galaxy can be seen by the naked eye as a misty patch of light.
  — Arnold Pearlstein, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2019
• Here on the north side of the Brooks Range, the misty mountains spill clear-running creeks.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
• The overcast and misty weather helped, and the winds didn’t pick up too much during the course of the day.
  — Sam Farmer, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• The weather is dark and dreary, thick clouds with a misty rain.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2019
• Three hours’ drive from the misty cloud forest, the city of Cobán is awash in color.
  — Max Falkowitz, Saveur, 28 Nov. 2018
• Were the green fields, the ghostly cows, the misty air in the falling light enough to make life worth living?
  — J.r. Patterson, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• The set piece ends on a close-up of a misty-eyed Aimee, sandwiched and smiling among her peers at the back of the bus.
  — Christi Carras Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• Liang got misty-eyed talking about what her role means to her.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
• Ellen got misty-eyed; behind her, a screen scrolled through Airbnb.org.
  — Molly Osberg, Curbed, 24 Mar. 2022
• Out of the misty Barcelona landscape comes a gem of a soccer player.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• The Sabers attack couldn’t get on track on a misty night at Horlick Field.
  — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
• Read the full letter, below, and try not to get a little misty eyed.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 14 Jan. 2019
• Images of parrots and bivouacs, acid-green leaves and misty forests filled my head.
  — Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 5 May 2024
• The sky was misty and gray and the tower's windows glowed with a warm and welcoming light.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2021
• Some of you are even misty over the memory of Cedrick Wilson.
  — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
• The view over the chilly, misty Coombsville region is gorgeous.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• The landscape was still stunningly white and serene, with a thin layer of snow on the ground and a misty white haze in the air.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
• Although most of the rain was out of here by sunrise, the morning remained misty and cool.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• And music may be what will keep us sane if misty-eyed in the apocalypse.
  — Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
• As the morning brightened, a misty rain cloaked the plants in tiny droplets of liquid gemstones.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• Sunday was the day for us OGs to get misty nostalgic about our dads.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 June 2022
• The way Mortimer Jordan coach Dusty Goode remembers it, the day was cold and cloudy and misty.
  — Josh Bean | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2019
• Gabriella sat misty-eyed, but silent, tight in their embrace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• On a recent cool night in a misty rain, Mr. Takairangi and some of his friends were looking for somewhere to spend the night.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• Key lights of early morning sunshine would dance briefly on the ridges as misty clouds swirled in the distance.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2021
• And that, Youssef said in a half-joke that turned Stewart’s misty eyes to tittering ones, is why he was forced to flee Egypt.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024