Even doused with ketchup, that burger in foil tasted like a wet dog smells.
Like a wet blanket swollen with water, the climate can only absorb so much excess heat before global temperatures begin to rise.
These estimates feel a bit like a wet finger held up in a gale swirling in different directions - more hunch than exact science.
The office of lost bus objects was lit like a dungeon and smelled like a wet sock, its counter manned by a lanky kid in a floppy Santa hat.
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Until recently, for a chance of rain of 30%, the Weather Channel's weather.com had shown icons of rain, which for users who don't look at percentages will look like a prediction of wet weather even though the firm's computer models predict that seven out of 10 times on similar days, there will be no rain.
But with 3, 500 pounds of grand touring car to move, even this splendid engine direct-injection, dry-sump, a sky-high 13.5:1 compression ratio, 8, 700-rpm redline, 65-degree V12 can't hope to serve up the sensations of a track-focused machine, that distinctive corner-exiting moment when you jump into the throttle and the engine's torque hits you in the back like a bag of wet cement.
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He would take me by the hands and spin me around like a tea cloth full of wet lettuce until I thought my arms would be wrenched from their sockets.
Dr. TRENBERTH: Well, one of the ironical things in the West in particular is that most of the water rights and the water allocations were set based upon a relatively wet period during something like the first 20 years of the 20th century.
Professor John Zarnecki, principal investigator on Huygens' surface science package (SSP) said the area where Huygens landed appeared to have a thin crust that overlies a material with more uniform consistency something like wet sand.
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The game is basically just like normal soccer, but it's played on a wet, marshy swamp.
If the foundation of a pie especially a custard pie like a pumpkin pie is too dry or too wet, it could crumble apart or slide off forks.
That's like an eternity from now, which is pretty much throwing a wet blanket on our love for non-forceable OTA updates.
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Sorry, it's about to get all geeky in here: The longitudinally midmounted V8 transfers power to the limited-slip e-diff through a Koenigsegg-designed seven-speed gearbox, with a twin-disc dry clutch and an 11-disc wet clutch arranged sequentially, working cooperatively, rather like a dual-clutch automated manual transmission.
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Like many cities, Cincinnati has a combined sewer system that is easily overwhelmed in wet weather, when untreated stormwater mixes with wastewater and overflows into water bodies or backs up into homes.
Even when wet, a Golden Retriever scarf doesn't smell any more like dog than a typical wool sweater smells like sheep, she says.
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For example, Atlanta's Sto Corp. created a self-cleaning paint that repels dirt whenever it gets wet, just like the lotus leaf does.
We had been in our rented, deceptively spacious houseboat in Amsterdam for about the same amount of time, and we were given a first-hand glimpse of what living half-submerged in water was like during the moderate yet wet Dutch winters.
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Just like they told you for your school photo, sit up straight, wet your lips and lean forward just a bit.
The rooms are large by hotel standards and very well equipped, with wet bars, Nespresso machines, terraces, gorgeous bathrooms and a very residential feel, more like apartments than hotel rooms.
"Antibiotic resistance in some parts of the world is like a slow tsunami, we've known it's coming for years and we're going to get wet, " he said.
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