How to Use wet market in a Sentence

wet market

noun

• With no large-scale hypermarkets, shoppers rose at dawn to snag the freshest produce at local wet markets.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
• The victim was a 61-year-old man who was reported to be a regular visitor to Wuhan’s wet market.
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 10 Jan. 2026
• Marmots, woodland creatures whose raw viscera are believed by Siberians to have medicinal properties, are not infrequently hunted by poachers and sold at wet markets.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
• The same mathematical approach underpins platforms such as Instagram, a wet market for faces, on which users self-brand and sell themselves—and on which the most successful products are those which top the algorithmic charts.
  — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• And a comprehensive 2024 study in the journal Cell looked at samples from a wet market in Wuhan, finding that those that tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus clustered around a stall where live animals were sold.
  — Eric McDaniel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026