puddle
Example Sentences
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As we watched the group wander about, a female capybara waded into a mud puddle along the truck path and rolled around happily.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Now, when we approach kids crowding the sidewalk, a curbside puddle or a dog crouching to pee, I stop and extend my arm like Sir Walter Raleigh, offering Sarah the right of first passage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Those roles sometimes conflict — as they did at Lake Mendocino, which dried to a mud puddle during the 2012–16 drought.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
You want something that sits up in the spoon, not something that sighs into a puddle.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
I looked at my friends because I didn’t want to look at the puddle of yellow, growing bigger and bigger around our egg.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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