soaking

How To Use soaking In A Sentence

• Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
• This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
• Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
• The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
• Fumbling, my fingers clumsy and slow, I fought with the buttons on his soaking-wet shirt.
• Effective cleaning methods include presoaking and manual, ultrasonic, or washer/ decontaminator cleaning to remove soil and extraneous material.
• Unfortunately when washday comes, as it indubitably has, we can all be in for a right good soaking.
• The effect of the cold rainwater soaking his collar from the inspector's awkwardly held umbrella had diminished. THE LAST RAVEN
• Sprouting grains by soaking them first increases the amount of enzymes and neutralises the antinutrient phytic acid. Times, Sunday Times
• After a while, when she returned to shore, she would trot over to me, drop the stick down, and then shake her soaking body all over me.