sodden

A million tons of sodden dirt avalanched down onto Riverside Drive from Elysian Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

On a Tokyo street corner, in the pouring rain, a swelling crowd gathered with drenched placards and sodden flags.

From BBC ● May 7, 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

"One time there was a carpet leading up to the altar that became absolutely sodden with urine and droppings and had to be thrown away. They also destroyed the brass work."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

With great care, Simon turned the sodden page.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

The bed was completely soddened, the blankets and quilt dabbling in the water.

From A Girl of the Klondike by Victoria Cross

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

Walking very gently, he carefully scanned the dead leaves at the foot of the banana trees, and silently pointed to a heap which was soddened by rain.

From The Call Of The South 1908 by Louis Becke

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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