How to Use waterlogged in a Sentence

waterlogged

adjective

• The ground was completely waterlogged.
• These plants are prone to root rot if the soil stays waterlogged for long periods.
  — Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2024
• Ensure your plant has soil that is slightly damp to the touch, not waterlogged or dry.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• But if plant roots stay waterlogged for too long, plants can develop root rot and die back.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2025
• There’s no need to peel them; the skin keeps the potatoes from getting waterlogged.
  — Ali Slagle, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• For watering, make sure the soil is moist but not soggy or waterlogged.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Back then, the landscape was flat, mostly waterlogged, and thick with greenery.
  — Josie Garthwaite, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2012
• Driftwood, once waterlogged, can weigh hundreds of pounds, adding to the hazards.
  — Katu Staff, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
• Because the system is so waterlogged, none of the rain evaporates on its way to the ground.
  — Matthew Cappucci and Ian Livingston, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
• There are areas of the city that are waterlogged and others that are hundreds of feet from any water source.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• By that point, one of his shoes had ripped, and with the rain soaking the trail for 30 hours, his feet ended up waterlogged and swollen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
• The water pumping is filling up the land with salt and pesticides, and the land is growing waterlogged.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• In November, the team sat around for several weeks waiting for the chance to break the record, but rain kept the sand waterlogged.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2022
• Keep the melons watered through summer – about 1 to 2 inches a week or when the soil is dry down the first 4 inches or so -- but not waterlogged.
  — oregonlive, 25 May 2021
• As for the Verrazano statue, the papers from 1909 were too waterlogged to read when the time capsule was opened.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 25 June 2017
• Making the long walk from the main stage to the B-stage in the middle of the stadium, Dessner, too, quickly looked waterlogged.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 May 2023