Example sentences for: mist

How can you use “mist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By the time he made that picture, though, he had already taken in works by more venturesome Pictorialists that showed the modern city as itself and had produced Railroad Sidings, New York (1914): a couple of willful diagonals of boxcars surmounted by a tangle of rails and a head of steam that has nothing to do with mist.

  • The Tower of Mist and Rain (Yanyulou), a two-story lakeside pavilion in the southern style, was favored by emperors for its foggy views resembling those of an old Chinese painting.

  • As there is little rainfall on La Gomera this mist, spawned by the mystical trade winds, assumes great ecological importance having given life to this sub-tropical forest.

  • He was fascinated by the Japanese-print flatness bequeathed by the Impressionists; in Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls (1915), he managed to cheat scale so much that the boat looks like a bathtub toy against the swirl of rocks and spume.

  • "As hundreds of corpses lay in their body bags," the paper reports, "the ice grew soft and watery, and a thick pungent mist rose from it."


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