puddle
Example Sentences
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Before you drain, save the pasta water — that cloudy starch is what turns chopped olives and warm oil into a sauce that clings instead of puddles.
From Salon
The federal investigators encountered puddles of crude oil on the facility grounds, as well as caustic fumes emanating from the facility, resulting in violations for air quality and other environmental infractions.
From Los Angeles Times
The other part of me wants to collapse in a puddle of tears on the kitchen floor.
From Literature
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Glory leapt over a puddle and stood tall.
From Literature
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They worked it downfield, through the puddles, through and around the demonic Italian players, over halfway and into the enemy 22.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.