sodden

The ball travelled unpredictably across the sodden surface.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

Scotland's campaign got off to a disappointing start in losing to Italy in sodden conditions in Rome.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

Sometimes you have to break away from heavy, sodden reality and go straight into joyful idiocy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

"The walls of our showroom are still drying out, but the walls are still sodden," Mr Beazant said.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

There were sodden, black-edged holes where she’d clenched them in her fists.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Their tempers grew shorter under the strain, and their bodies ached from the chill of their soddened garments and sitting hour by hour at the helm.

From The Protector by Harold Bindloss

At every sigh of the breeze a little shower of rain-drops fell pattering on to the soddened leaves and the melancholy music was resumed.

From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

You are played out as an essayist: your ardor is soddened, your intellectual substance crumbled, by the attempt to keep up the work of your twenties in your thirties.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

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