ADJECTIVE
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abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination
drenched in moonlight
moon-drenched meadows
How To Use drenched in In A Sentence
- Her face is drenched in sweat, the heat is not to be borne. A MEANS TO EVIL
- Taboula, a parsley, tomato, onion and burghul - or cracked wheat - salad was drenched in the most sickening oil.
- Sometimes she would emerge from her trailer drenched in sweat. Times, Sunday Times
- All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
- Unless it’s drenched in cumquat brandy, of course. Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
- Foie gras du canard and little spicy sweet peppers filled with herby cheese and drenched in olive oil were her choice of appetizers.
- He was already drenched in sweat. Times, Sunday Times
- His windscreen was drenched in flying oil. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
- His already dirtied clothes were drenched in the sludge.
- At another - possibly on the same night - it might be minuscule portions of conch ceviche on a bed of lime and chilli, drenched in aged balsamic and served in a trumpet fashioned from the re-frozen meltwaters of Arctic glaciers.
