water-logged
Example Sentences
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After a night of chaos and confrontation, the clearest reminder of the protests on Wednesday morning were water-logged flyers littering streets alongside the campus perimeter.
From BBC • May 1, 2024
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
Sinks everywhere are clogged with scraps of lettuce, decomposing lemon wedges, water-logged toast crusts.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
