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adjective

humid

CEFR B1

containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor

In a sentence

Six example sentences with humid, each labelled with its topic.

  • The mangrove air stayed so humid that our notebooks curled by noon and nothing hung on the line ever dried.

    Environment

  • Keep the proofing box humid, because a dry skin forms on the dough and stops it rising evenly.

    Cooking

  • August in the delta is punishingly humid, and a linen shirt clings to your back within a block of the hotel.

    Travel

  • Stepping from the air conditioned lobby into the humid street fogged her lens for five minutes before she could shoot.

    Photography

  • The hall was so humid that the cellist retuned between movements as the gut strings kept drifting flat.

    Music

  • Houses in the humid lowlands stand on stilts with deep verandas so air can move beneath and around every room.

    Architecture

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