water-logged
Example Sentences
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Chances for more downed trees, as well as mudslides, road flooding and power outages are increasing as the storm continues to dump rain on an already water-logged region.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024
"They become so water-logged that it's difficult to pull them out of the ocean. And they are so cheap to replace that people just leave them in the water and buy new ones."
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023
Many people tried to brave the morning commute, bundling children into rain jackets and sprinting toward the Q station on the corner of 83rd Street and Second Avenue in water-logged shoes.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2023
On the mainland, more than 11,000 people were evacuated from water-logged areas in Meizhou, a city in Guangdong province, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023
Nothing familiar, not a traffic clog of yellow rusted buses or a water-logged slum of zinc shacks.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
