How to Use sodden in a Sentence

sodden

adjective

• The organ was fleshy and heavy, like a sodden loaf of bread.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• Hence the gloves and the suits, which quickly become sodden with gore.
  — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2018
• The sodden contents of her home are piled up around her, drying in the sun.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
• The sodden pompom on his beanie had sunk into the folds of his wet cap.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
• The canoe moved a few inches and then lurched free, like a sodden log.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
• And to the two other, even more ink-sodden runners-up, Chris Doyle and Mark Raffman.
  — Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• His father lies supine on the sodden ground ahead, dead and bloated in the downpour.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• Long queues formed outside tents that had been erected in the sodden fields.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
• The starlight was obscured by the sodden cloud cover of early spring.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
• The rain could return over the weekend, adding more moisture to very sodden earth.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2023
• On the north and west, a network of boardwalks sags into the sodden tundra.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
• Staff members used towels and plastic bins to try to mop up the sodden mess.
  — Curt Anderson, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• On El Dorado Drive, Raphael’s cherubs peered up at the clouds from a gold framed print perched against a sodden rug.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Hot, sodden air blows through the open window and his sweat dampens the towel draped around his neck.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Finally, with one big wave, the joints loosened and the boards gave way with a sodden clatter.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• The depths of the Great Lakes are littered with the sodden remains of an estimated 6,000 sunken ships.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020
• Maybe scaly like fishskin, or springy like grassland, or cool and sodden like clay.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
• Back on the ring road, the sodden gray clouds threatening all morning made good on their promise.
  — Ellen Perlman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• DuPay, squelching across the sodden carpet that morning, put his hand against the safe.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2020
• In another room, a box of sodden medicines had been rescued and piled on a counter top that had warped and bubbled like crème brulee.
  — Joseph Hincks / MacAu, Time, 28 Aug. 2017
• Your fry, once golden and crunchy, has been demeaned to a sodden, sad, cold, and worthless potato strand.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 21 Nov. 2018
• Windmills pumped water out of sodden farmland and canals whisked it away.
  — Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• Lucky Danger’s beef and broccoli is equal parts soft meat and sodden vegetable.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• Staff members resorted to towels and plastic bins to try to mop up the sodden mess.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2022
• However, the sodden sedan won’t be dried out anytime soon.
  — Doug Phillips, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Nothing in the vegetable plot except mushy weeds bowing to the earth, something sodden and green that may once have been a potato.
  — Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
• In Pingyao, the centuries-old city walls, made with mud cores, collapsed after they became sodden last fall.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• With clothes and face a sodden green, / Big-bellied, spectacled, crop-haired, / Dribbling black blood from nose and beard.
  — David Yezzi, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
• The bunkers were frightening, with players unsure if the ball would settle in the middle or be up against the vetted, sodden walls.
  — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
• Ragtops are Great Britain's nose-thumbing gesture at the sodden skies that often sulk there.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023

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