presoaking

present participle of presoak

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • One-bedroom suites offer living, dining, and work areas, a powder room, and bathrooms with double vanities, soaking tubs, and separate showers.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • An Albany woman was recently sent to federal prison for soaking legal papers with a synthetic cannabinoid and mailing them into New York’s prisons.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In pastel satin, the shoe softened the architecture while saturating the butter tone that has been trending on red carpets all month.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • English advises saturating natural hair mats with Designme’s leave-in treatment, then applying their rich hydrating mask before detangling (first pass with your fingers, then with a wide-tooth comb) from the ends to the roots.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With his free time, he is typically found impregnating other time traveler Geillis Duncan or hitting on Claire.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This version is great for three weeks in the fridge after steeping for two days.
    Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Some are steeping themselves in traditional ingredients and cooking techniques, while others are brashly striking out to forge creative new styles.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Floods are expected to worsen as a warming climate fuels stronger storms, drenching areas that are already flood-prone and bringing a new level of flooding to areas once considered lower risk.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Imelda’s drenching rains also began to ebb in the Bahamas on Monday, as most of the remaining tropical storm warnings were lifted Monday evening, minus the most northwestern islands of Grand Bahama and Great Abaco Island.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For happy bulbs and a healthier lawn, Heath recommends selecting drought-tolerant grass or simply watering less.
    Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Avoid using nitrogen-heavy fertilizers, watering the grass more often than needed, or letting the grass get too tall since mowing longer grass means cutting more than ⅓ of the blade.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The last post shared on Allen's Instagram was a photo of him and the late Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died in July after drowning while on a family vacation in Costa Rica.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The quake came as central Philippine provinces were still recovering from a storm that struck Friday, killing at least 27 people, mostly from drowning and falling trees.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wait 10 minutes before washing for milder stains or up to a week for more severe or stubborn stains.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The targets are those film companies and institutions that are complicit and are white-washing or justifying the genocide and its apartheid regime.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Presoaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presoaking. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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