[
US
/ˈsɑdən/
]
[ UK /sˈɒdən/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒdən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
wet through and through; thoroughly wet
soppy clothes
stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain
the speaker's sodden collar
How To Use sodden In A Sentence
- That's the forecast for the forecastable future -- showers and thundershowers as the warm and sun suck moisture out of our sodden lebensraum and turn it back into clouds. Showers
- He found some disagreeable remnants — a watery stew, cold and sodden; a basin half-full of some kind of tinned soup; a chill suet pudding put away on a shelf. The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
- I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
- He portrays a whisky-sodden Catholic priest.
- Perhaps in these sodden February days it sounds like an environmental manifesto. Times, Sunday Times
- River and watercourse levels rocketed which led to homes and businesses being soddened, 15 schools closed and the emergency services at full stretch.
- Inside clouds tiny vortices created by the wind spin water-sodden dust particles into clusters, where they meld to form raindrops, say the authors.
- The snow had melted, showing sodden branches and clotted lumps of brown leaves through the woods.
- Shaking my head, I stood shakily to my legs and stumbled over to the water, taking off my sodden shirt and placing it on the ground next to me.
- Big sodden bales sat in the small high-hedged fresh-cut fields, a pigeon clapped in the alders and misty rain filled a steel grey sky.