How to Use puddle in a Sentence

puddle

1 of 2 noun

• After the storm, the road was covered in deep puddles.
• She accidentally stepped in a puddle and got her shoes wet.
• Go ahead, stomp in the puddles, slide on the swing, play tag.
  — Allison Andrews, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• And in the fourth quarter, with the game on the line, the offense turned into a puddle.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• Laying in that puddle of blood for hours and hours and hours and hours.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 July 2022
• The final day of the Angels’ season began with rain, a tarp on the field and puddles in the dugout.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• And, of course, they’re crafted in durable rubber to keep puddles at bay.
  — Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• The voice on the other end said Marshall had overdosed and been found face down in a puddle.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• And while that helped — as did the rain letting up in the second half — big puddles remained.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Fitzpatrick was found lying in a puddle of blood by the front door, the report states.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 8 July 2022
• From there, she was placed in a cell, where she was found at one point in a puddle of her own urine, her lawyers said.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• And to answer your question, to me the biggest surprise was the red wave that turned out to be more of a puddle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Officers arrived to find her in a puddle of blood on the floor.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 July 2022
• One eight-year-old girl drew her large, happy house, then, next to it, added a puddle of blood.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• His tent sits next to a growing puddle of water that trails down from the railway.
  — Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• His freezer thawed in the blackout, leaving a puddle on his floor.
  — John Leicester, Hanna Arhirova, Sam Mednick, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2022
• Once the grounds crew got the tarp in place, very heavy rain, strong winds and lightning moved into the area, with the rain forming large puddles all along the track around the park.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2023
• In the garage, water drizzled from the ceiling forming a puddle.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
• The bacteria was found in three spots — two in soil and one in a puddle — on the property of the man who was sickened two years ago.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 27 July 2022
• Amidst record-breaking temperatures and drought, a pond near her house in the Austin suburb had shrunk to the size of a puddle.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
• Across the court, among the Oakland fans, Lisa Gohlke was dissolving into a puddle of tears.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• This summery style puts the likes of curtain bangs to shame, shifting your hair into a puddle of waves.
  — Amina Ayoud, Allure, 8 July 2022
• He was fascinated by how crows dragged bread too stale to eat over to puddles to soak.
  — Kate Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Water from a recent flood remained as puddles, in some spots ankle-high.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• Her puddle jeans, as they’re called, are characterized by extra-long pant legs that drape over the foot and create a puddle of fabric at the floor.
  — Emma Mehl, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2026
• Proceed with caution when driving over standing water or puddles.
  — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Although there is no running water, there has been rain so there are big puddles lying around.
  — Amanda Hari, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
• Recent heavy rains had flooded the basement floor, and a deep puddle reflected back a clear blue sky.
  — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• The music underneath it all is limpid and watery, almost puddle-like.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
• This dynamic is similar to stepping on a frozen puddle, when cracks shoot out from your footprint.
  — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Jan. 2026

puddle

2 of 2 verb

• If the oil begins to puddle or drip, wipe it with a clean tack cloth.
  — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 22 July 2020
• The steel balconies seemed to sway with the movement of bodies; beer puddled on the floor near the stage where fans were packed tight.
  — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2017
• For: Hunting mixed bags of divers and puddle ducks on major lakes and rivers in the winter, and fishing in the spring.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 14 Dec. 2020
• Water will puddle in the low spots toward the middle of lakes and ponds where the ice sags. Run the shorelines on lakes.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2020
• Police found Tice dead on the floor in his home office, blood puddled around his head.
  — The Denver Post, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2017
• On a bed of ice cubes, oysters puddle in their shells next to a sliding pinkish moraine of shrimp.
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020
• For a loose, casual effect, let garland puddle on the floor by up to a foot.
  — Anna Logan, Country Living, 3 Dec. 2022
• Baggy jeans and crop tops, puddle pants and sweater vests—many of your go-to looks could likely be taken up a notch with one of the best belts.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2021
• The cratered outfield grass that puddled at the lightest spring rains has been uprooted.
  — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 26 Oct. 2017
• Feldman also hates curtains that are too short or too puddled on the floor.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• Under the hot couscous, the goat cheese melted into a creamy, salty, tangy puddle.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
• Guests, puddling on the floor, were arrayed around a little park planted with firs and bordered by an iron bench.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2016
• Water oozes and trickles and puddles up through the steamy, planar landscape.
  — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
• Rainwater was puddling deeply on the playing surface as the Kiwis did their dance.
  — Alan Dymock, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
• Three different kinds of cheese, freshly snipped basil, and sweet tomato sauce puddled with olive oil.
  — Keith Flanagan, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2018
• Floodwaters regularly puddled on her street, in her neighbor’s yards and came all the way up to her door.
  — Alex Harris, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Mold and mildew deposits can form in the rubber door gasket on front load washers if water is allowed to puddle there.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2021
• Some of the places puddle ducks like best simply can’t be accessed with a regular outboard motor.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 14 Dec. 2020
• Souvenirs from his time include a fortune worth of silk window treatments — draped, swagged, fringed, puddled or ballooned — that reach past 20 feet tall in the living room.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2019
• Small shouldered jackets and coats sliced up the spine for movement were paired with hip-slung trousers, puddling at the ankles, and macramé vests trailing strands of fringe (weirdly, macramé is sort of a thing this season).
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
• There is, however, no runoff, as the spray was more like a mist that occasionally made a rainbow and left sidewalks wet, but not puddled.
  — Gary Warth, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• These aren't to be confused with beachy cover-ups, though there's nothing wrong with layering some very open fishnet over a bikini, long-sleeve shirt, or puddle pants.
  — Shanna Shipin, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2022
• That suits diving ducks fine, but puddle ducks have trouble feeding in their accustomed locales.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• His umbrella, proving useless to fend off water, becomes a prop to his tap dancing and puddle jumping.
  — Nadine Zylberberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Aug. 2021
• There’s no running into town when the last cubes start to melt, no water puddling in the bottom to turn sandwiches soggy or hard-earned venison into ugly gray matter.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 25 Mar. 2020
• Cast-iron-roasted chicken took a familiar comfort to a new level, the bird’s tawny skin drizzled with rich jus that puddled into potato gnocchi flecked with Cabot cheddar.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• Already, in the last few seasons, blazers have been worn two sizes too big, puddle pants have replaced everything previously cropped, and jeans have been designed specifically to be worn big.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• When a deer pees on a scrape, these proteins create a photoluminescent puddle.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
• The water will either puddle on top or run off if the site is sloped.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025