waterlog
Example Sentences
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For one thing, the ice cubes could still waterlog your plant if they melt faster than they can be absorbed, she says.
From The Guardian
In “Waterlog,” his celebrated chronicle of swimming through Britain’s waterways, the naturalist Roger Deakin described swimming as having a transformative, Alice-in-Wonderland quality; it was an activity that had power over his perception of self and of time.
From New York Times
We meet the water lover Roger Deakin, whose Suffolk farmhouse had its own “spring-fed moat” and who chronicled his swim across Britain’s lakes and rivers in his book “Waterlog.”
From New York Times
You do that in part to soften the vegetables, because they won’t really be cooked in the frittata, and in part to rid them of excess liquid, so they won’t waterlog the eggs.
From Washington Post
In the last bridge water started to leak into the barrels beneath the decking and waterlog the foam inside them causing the bridge to sink slightly to the point where there was often a puddle of water in the middle of it, Kacik said.
From Washington Times
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