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verb

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Recent Examples of sodden
Adjective
Daylight revealed a transformed world—sodden mattresses dangling from the tops of trees, canoes crumpled like beer cans, houses sheared off their foundations. Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025 After a couple days when the soil is soft but not sodden, the ground will be the perfect consistency to dig and put stakes. Amelia Martin, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
Verb
Adding to the misery, the rainy season has set in, flooding already sodden tent camps where many live. A Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023 Gordon’s dresses, in shades of pink and blue — like party favors at a gender reveal — were too long and sodden with colored stones. Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for sodden
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sodden
Adjective
  • The blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer's knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and 'Wannabe Senator' Roy Cooper.
    Khaleda Rahman Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Another project dripping red ink involves the Walt Whitman Bridge between Philadelphia and New Jersey, which began in 2013 and is yet to be completed despite having received more than $1 billion in federal money.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Potential for wetting rain exists and could provide additional containment opportunities.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • To clean, start by wetting the inside of your shower.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Don't let your soil dry out then soak it.
    Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Once soaked, take them out and rinse the parts thoroughly.
    Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This set includes eight in saturated tones, plus 30 faux maple leaves that are surprisingly detailed and great for scattering along a mantle or layering into a centerpiece.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Coconut is a high-calorie food rich in saturated fat that could potentially impact your heart disease risk.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After a man drowned off a popular Anna Maria Island beach over the Labor Day weekend, city officials are speeding up plans to ban swimming in the area.
    Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • On Wednesday, as one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims spoke outside the Capitol, pleading for government candor, fighter jets roared overhead, briefly drowning her out.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 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
  • The devices nearly saturated the ground, and boosted humidity in the grove by 20%, dampening fire spread, Zwierzchowski said.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dry Dill To dry dill, wash and dry it thoroughly.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The base can even wash the mops with water heated to 212 degrees Fahrenheit to remove grease.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For a unique spin on this refreshing golf cocktail, try steeping with other popular tea flavors like Peach, Lavender, or Earl Grey.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And each, in their own way, was notably political, Lamar landing blows about racial inequity, and Beyoncé, by steeping her show in tradition, reclaiming country as a Black musical expression in an age when some of its biggest white stars have weaponized it on behalf of MAGA.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Sodden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sodden. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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