MIST in a Sentence

Learn MIST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

196 example sentences for MIST, such as:

1. It's always hidden in the mist.
2. A veil of mist obscured the view.
3. A figure loomed up out of the mist.
4. Early morning mist patches will soon clear.
5. The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mist
 n.  visible watery vapor suspended in atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog
Classic Sentence: (175 in 12 pages)
1  Seen thus, from the pure and frosty darkness in which he stood, it seemed to be seething in a mist of heat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  He saw Jotham Powell walking up the hill through the morning mist, and the familiar sight added to his growing conviction of security.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  And there's the long view down the road to the river, across the cotton fields, and the mist rising from the bottom lands in the twilight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  She tried to think of all the things Mammy and Ellen had done for her when Wade was born but the merciful blurring of the childbirth pains obscured almost everything in mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  She was in a wild strange country so thick with swirling mist she could not see her hand before her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  Suddenly she was running, running through the mist like a mad thing, crying and screaming, throwing out her arms to clutch only empty air and wet mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Then his voice became thin and dim and his face above her swirled in a sickening mist which became heavier and heavier until she no longer saw him--or anything else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  It's always hidden in the mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  She would miss the comfort of his arms when she woke terrified from the dreams that she was running through cold mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
11  Something was wrong with the world, a somber, frightening wrongness that pervaded everything like a dark impenetrable mist, stealthily closing around Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
12  The world was wrapped in a thick mist, a faintly chill mist that bore on its breath the smell of the dying year.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
13  In a hundred nightmares, she had fled through fog like this, through a haunted country without landmarks, thick with cold cloaking mist, peopled with clutching ghosts and shadows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
14  The horror that was in the mist and was the mist laid hands upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
15  As she had run a hundred times in dreams, she ran now, flying blindly she knew not where, driven by a nameless dread, seeking in the gray mist for the safety that lay somewhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Today most of England will be under a cloak of thick mist.
2  A veil of mist obscured the view.
3  The dim outline of a building loomed up out of the mist.
4  I don't think the mist will clear off very soon.
5  Early morning mist patches will soon clear.
6  A figure loomed up out of the mist.
7  Through the mist I could just make out a vague figure.
8  The plane came down safely in spite of the mist.
9  The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
10  She gazed at the scene through a mist of tears.
11  The mountain villages seem to be permanently shrouded in mist.
12  The bright sunlight eventually might dispel the morning mist.
13  The waves were enormous, and the air was filled with salty mist.
14  Fog would shroud Dracula's castle, hiding the ruined tower beneath sheets of mist.
15  Occasional drops of rain slither through the silvery mist, and the white stones of the buildings and roads of Cyad are gray with moisture.