dry fog


nounMeteorology.
  1. a fog that does not moisten exposed surfaces.

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How to use dry fog in a sentence

  • The "Flash" had glided into a dense bank of dry fog, and the Captain could not see a yard beyond the panes of glass.

    The Little Skipper | George Manville Fenn
  • In the year 1782 the sun was for many weeks obscured by a dry fog, and appeared red as through a common mist.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus Darwin
  • The first of these was in the year 526, when a dry fog covered the Roman Empire with a red haze.

  • What meteorologists call dry fog is a haze of dust or smoke, sometimes very dense.

    Meteorology | Charles Fitzhugh Talman
  • They said that it was a very dry fog, not like Newport, and asked you to notice that it did not wet you at all.

    April Hopes | William Dean Howells