How to Use foggy in a Sentence

foggy

adjective
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  • I don't remember what her name was—my memory is a little foggy.
  • The report states the weather was foggy and the road was dry at the time of the crash.
    — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 12 Jan. 2023
  • It's set to be a rainy and foggy day in Greater Cincinnati.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There was the one in Iceland that was so foggy, she and her colleagues got lost.
    — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2022
  • On the main deck, riders typed away at emails, napped, and took in foggy views of the Harbor Islands.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • In June of 1933, Dianne Feinstein was born in this foggy city by the bay.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
  • By June and July, this area starts getting cold and foggy.
    — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • At the time, the area was considered too cool and foggy for viticulture.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Monday’s foggy start shouldn’t be a problem as the day features a mixture of sun and clouds.
    — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the meantime is a team dealing with a foggy present but a future that could inspire more hope.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Sea spray and rain turned the air into a foggy emulsion; breaking waves slammed the boat with the force of a tractor-trailer.
    — Porter Fox, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • The purifier quickly turned the room from smoky and foggy to clear.
    — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the clip, the athlete first practiced his swing a few times under a foggy gray sky as he was coached by a friend who stood to his side.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2023
  • While the actual summer months are chilly and foggy, fall tends to be warm and sunny.
    — Katrina Brown Hunt, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
  • The reflective straps on these boots will help keep dogs safe on night time walks or in foggy weather.
    — Lily Gray, PEOPLE.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Surf was modest, with swells around 3 feet (about 1 meter), but skies were foggy and black.
    — Elliot Spagat, Gregory Bull, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In the state’s foggy northwest corner, people are used to lots of rain — but the snow and ice this year were brutal, Harris said.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • The morning should start off a bit foggy due to moisture still in the air, but metro Atlanta will remain dry until the late evening.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s how fog forms and what drivers can do to stay safe during foggy weather.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • All in all, this weekend is shaping up to be on the cooler and foggier side — just in time for the shrouded return of May Gray.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Skies are mainly clear overnight, with perhaps a touch of fog in usually foggy spots.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • Whether sunny or foggy, this is always a breathtaking spot, but the very best time to be here is sunrise.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Wrapped in that foggy silence, her memories of the tongue and lips that had been used to pronounce, of the hand that had firmly gripped the pencil, grew remote.
    — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Whether or not the fog manages to breach San Francisco Bay during this first round of foggy conditions is still up in the air.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Here’s what causes fog and what drivers can do to stay safe during foggy weather.
    — Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Compared to the gloomy and foggy weather that the airport is known for, Wednesday’s weather is shaping up to be great for outbound flights.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Science journalism, like science itself, does a lot of its labor on the edge of the knowable, in foggy realms.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Crews used county search dogs and a helicopter during the search in rainy and foggy conditions.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 9 May 2023
  • The morning was foggy and overcast and drivers were using their headlights, the report said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • While the characters were painted perfectly, the backdrop of the plot happening outside of the home was a bit foggy at times.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023

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