How to Use sodden in a Sentence

sodden

1 of 2 adjective
  • The sodden pompom on his beanie had sunk into the folds of his wet cap.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The canoe moved a few inches and then lurched free, like a sodden log.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The sodden contents of her home are piled up around her, drying in the sun.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Long queues formed outside tents that had been erected in the sodden fields.
    — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Hence the gloves and the suits, which quickly become sodden with gore.
    — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Maybe scaly like fishskin, or springy like grassland, or cool and sodden like clay.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Staff members used towels and plastic bins to try to mop up the sodden mess.
    — Curt Anderson, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The starlight was obscured by the sodden cloud cover of early spring.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • His father lies supine on the sodden ground ahead, dead and bloated in the downpour.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • Windmills pumped water out of sodden farmland and canals whisked it away.
    — Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The rain could return over the weekend, adding more moisture to very sodden earth.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2023
  • By the time the game resumed, more than an inch of rain had fallen, and the pitch was sodden in places.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • Hot, sodden air blows through the open window and his sweat dampens the towel draped around his neck.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • On the north and west, a network of boardwalks sags into the sodden tundra.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
  • At a school one recent day, a dozen troops hauled sodden furniture outside.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Back on the ring road, the sodden gray clouds threatening all morning made good on their promise.
    — Ellen Perlman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Finally, with one big wave, the joints loosened and the boards gave way with a sodden clatter.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • Lucky Danger’s beef and broccoli is equal parts soft meat and sodden vegetable.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Use fast-draining potting mix that won’t force roots to stand in sodden soil for long periods of time.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The air, scented by sodden socks and bug spray, sagged with humidity.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
  • Staff members resorted to towels and plastic bins to try to mop up the sodden mess.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Your fry, once golden and crunchy, has been demeaned to a sodden, sad, cold, and worthless potato strand.
    — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The heat was now sweltering, my handkerchief sodden with use.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In another room, a box of sodden medicines had been rescued and piled on a counter top that had warped and bubbled like crème brulee.
    — Joseph Hincks / MacAu, Time, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Dead birds, however, became a sodden mess in liquid.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 18 May 2026
  • Leaving it sodden and sitting can breed microbial growth.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 20 May 2026
  • DuPay, squelching across the sodden carpet that morning, put his hand against the safe.
    — oregonlive, 27 May 2020
  • Heavy rains over the last several days, which have led to deadly floods in many parts of Afghanistan, had left the ground sodden and soft.
    — Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The mist too weighed upon me heavily, making my lungs feel sodden and congested.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Nothing in the vegetable plot except mushy weeds bowing to the earth, something sodden and green that may once have been a potato.
    — Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016

sodden

2 of 2 verb
  • Needless to say, with soils already sodden in the southeast, this would present a dire scenario for inland flooding.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The soliloquies are abstract, poetic, and sodden with longing and fear—more songs than attempts at talk.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • Plastic bags and bottles, coffee lids, yogurt cups, flip-flops, and sodden stuffed animals drifted past, coated in yellow scum.
    — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Before the fire, the ground was a carpet of moss, huckleberry bushes, and sword and bracken ferns, and was usually sodden with rain for about nine months of the year or more.
    — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Nathan Borchelt has been testing, rating, and reviewing outdoor and travel products for decade, and has spent many trips plying the rivers, oceans, lakes, and sodden hiking trails throughout the world.
    — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023

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