sodden

How to use sodden in a sentence

It’s a perfect growing medium for many plants, as it holds moisture and oxygen without getting sodden.

Despite the weight of my own sodden rain gear, I felt somehow lighter, too.

Shampooing used to mean a lot of foam and a lot of damp carpet, while steaming was seen as preferable as it didn’t leave fibers quite so sodden.

Lucky Danger’s beef and broccoli is equal parts soft meat and sodden vegetable.

It wanted something over an hour to midnight when Monsieur de Garnache started out in his sodden clothes to run from Condillac.

If two of the sodden ruffians forrad would only come up, then something might be done; but one tired sailor was of little use.

THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMAN

I am alone among my friends,And of our sodden crowd No single drunkard understandsI sit apart and vowed.

It was an exciting moment as that great bulk came on, its tons of sodden wood backed by the impetuous forces of the torrent.

But what a contrast to this spasm of local statesmanship the earlier years of that drink-sodden century display!

Beer-sodden women were so common a sight that the women who did not bear evidence of over-indulgence were remarkable.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985