sodden
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Heavy rain forced play to be suspended early in the final round with large areas of standing water on the sodden course.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
Tactics once celebrated in the sodden conditions of certain Premier League grounds are now the height of fashion for the competition's leading sides.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Sometimes you have to break away from heavy, sodden reality and go straight into joyful idiocy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
That was the span between his unlikely emergence as co-leader of a sodden US Open and JJ Spaun holing an astonishing 64-foot putt to deny the Scot any hope of a play-off.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
They went to the mouth of the cave and looked out at the rain, heavy, incessant, falling straight down through the sodden air.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
If the temperature is too low the things immersed in the fat are not fried, but soddened; if, on the other hand, the temperature is too high, they are charred.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
He could not utter a word as he had lost his breath, while being soddened from head to foot he was commencing to steam merrily.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
The withered underbush was saturated, the soil was soddened with melting snow, and after the first scanty meal or two he dare risk no delay.
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
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
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