sodden

And if you aren’t moved by it, there is something wrong and you must investigate your sodden heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The ball travelled unpredictably across the sodden surface.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

On the coastal road at Playa Canizo, a man in a straw hat and sodden fatigues, clasping an equally wet suitcase, thrust out his left arm, hoping for a ride to safety.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025

Schumacher's greatness in sodden conditions made the difference in Barcelona.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024

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 "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

If on the fourth day he do not arrive at the belad, or country, he then takes his left sandal from his foot, and stews or soddens it, making something of a soup.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

Kyril Kasimoff shuddered at the thought of the Beverly Crest Blüthner being hauled away like so much debris, as if its elegant frame was just another piece of soddened, shattered wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

Rain began to fall, soddened their straw sombreros, shortened their tempers.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no rain, but the bare hedges were dripping large drops of water condensed from the mist, and the dead leaves upon the ground were soddened with damp.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Richard Jefferies

The car went cautiously down the soddened white path, under the trees.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It was not so soddened as to allow the feet to sink ankle deep into the mire, but was like a wet sponge.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney

Soon the rain was trickling from Dictator Stalin's hat and soddening his coat.

From Time Magazine Archive

He may not be able to put it in words, but easterly haars, chilling rimes, drizzling mists, dagging fogs, and soddening rains speak eloquently to him of the meaning of climate.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson

He followed the grass-track to the north, and had walked less than half-an-hour when the wind took his cap and blew it into the middle of a pond, where it lay soddening out of reach.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.

From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

On it came, winding its way in a frightful stream into the room, soddening the rich carpet, and lying presently in a black pool at my feet.

From Dreams and Dream Stories by Anna Bonus Kingsford