[ US /ˈsɑdən/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒdən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. wet through and through; thoroughly wet
    soppy clothes
    stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain
    the speaker's sodden collar
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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.
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