How to Use foggy in a Sentence

foggy

adjective
  • 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
  • Overnight lows will be in the 60s, and some mornings could be foggy.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The course is foggy, so the greens have maintained some moisture.
    Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Keep the faith to get through this day's rocky and foggy conditions.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 18 July 2024
  • There was the one in Iceland that was so foggy, she and her colleagues got lost.
    WIRED, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The area was dark and foggy at the time of the crash as Herold was walking south on the highway, the patrol noted.
    Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Make that half a mile of open water that was cold, foggy, and sometimes too windy to cross.
    Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2020
  • In June of 1933, Dianne Feinstein was born in this foggy city by the bay.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The camera closes in on a foggy lake where a woman in white peeks out.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Thursday will start out foggy but should end up the sunniest day of the week.
    oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Not in the good, my-cleavage-looks-so-great sort of way, but in the foggy, uncertain, wait-I-have-to-chop-them-off?
    Allyson Reedy, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2024
  • By June and July, this area starts getting cold and foggy.
    Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The sense of smell is dulled and vision is foggy, so touch, taste and imagination are left to do the work.
    David Sables, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Some of the foggy cycles persist for weeks, or maybe a whole season.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2021
  • 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
  • The air hangs thick in these foggy, blurred scenes so much so that this stillness feels, not dismal but hopeful.
    Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2024
  • But when dryness sets in during the day, so does foggy vision.
    Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Why drift in the foggy labyrinth separating awake from asleep.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Set circa 1960 in the foggy town of Greendale, where fall is eternal, Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) navigates high school by day and battles dark forces by night.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024

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