sodden

Example Sentences

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Mr. Robb’s attunement makes him a master geographer of the oldest and newest forms of life on a “sodden, self-aggrandizing island outpost.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Natalie watched with sympathy as people dragged broken furniture and ruined carpets and sodden drywall from their shattered homes in the eighty-five-degree heat, tossing everything into growing junk piles in their yards.

From Literature

When it flooded most recently, she was left to stay overnight in the sodden flat, as no alternative accommodation could be found.

From BBC

With great care, Simon turned the sodden page.

From Literature

Penelope weighed the options: They could stay here, sodden and cold, and wait for the admiral to return.

From Literature