socked in
Example Sentences
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A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025
Near Ms. Avenatti’s home, an all-electric cabin built in 1964 that she nicknamed “High Dolly,” neighbors who had been socked in for weeks wondered how many more people were isolated and in need of help.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Last year, Ashland was socked in by so much smoke from a July lightning storm and other blazes, there were 37 days when the air registered as unhealthy, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
A slow and sedate episode with only Richard E Grant getting socked in the jaw to jolt us out of the sweet sherry stupor that this programme seems to induce.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2014
He stood, socked in grime, without a shirt upon him, in his wet pit.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
