moist

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: Consider adding mulch or compost to help keep the soil moist.

Modifies a noun

• humus: It fares best in moist, humus rich, acid soil in deep or partial shade.
• soil: Plant out late spring early summer into moist soil, bog garden, pond margins.
• convection: The improved fit is attributable to the effects of the grid resolution on moist convection in the model.
• compost: This will root readily in warm, moist compost.
• forest: Long-term growth and rainfall in a Ugandan moist forest: seasonal rhythms and flexing stems.
• cake: Firstly, get hold of a moist fruit cake.

Modifying Another Word

• deliciously: This deliciously moist cake will keep for up to a week.
• permanently: Up to 60 % of plants prefer these cool, sun scorch free, permanently moist sites.
• slightly: Add the wine at intervals, enough to keep the pan slightly moist at all times.
• barely: Cuttings are set in a rooting mixture of two parts sand to one part peat moss, which should be barely moist.
• constantly: Over watering can cause the fruit to split so try to keep the moist constantly moist but not wet.
• fairly: The paste should be smooth and fairly moist, tasting quite rich and tangy but not too bitter.

Infinitive complement

• prevent: Keep the compost just moist enough to prevent it from drying out completely.

Used with adjective complement

• keep: With the lid on or only partly removed for access the steam helps the meat to keep moist.
• prefer: Shade, one of the best ground covers for deep shade, yellows in sun; prefers moist, well-drained, acid soil.
• remain: The fish should turn opaque and flake slightly but still remain moist.
• stay: The recipe makes a loaf, which stays moist for up to a week.
• become: Great lakes were formed, all lowlands disappeared, and lands like Egypt became moist with water.

Preposition: in

• summer: Grows in sun or partial shade and in cool, humus-rich soil that should always be kept moist in summer.