sodden

Example Sentences

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The ball travelled unpredictably across the sodden surface.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Heavy rain forced play to be suspended early in the final round with large areas of standing water on the sodden course.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

Sometimes you have to break away from heavy, sodden reality and go straight into joyful idiocy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

I spent Monday hauling furniture to a dumpster and cutting up sodden rugs with a kitchen knife—it was all I had—so that they’d fit inside contractor bags.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

For about ten long seconds there was no sound but the rhythmic tick tick tick of the water dripping from Charles’s sodden clothes.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt