sodden

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Then, as the pace slowed in the men's 10,000m, three sodden runners came together.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

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

When it was done, the men took their sodden sleeping bags and crawled into their new hut.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

It had grown soddened and coarse of late, and there were times when she looked upon her husband with positive disgust.

From Thurston of Orchard Valley by W. Herbert Dunton

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 air was soddened with the dank scent of nettles.

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

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

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

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