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.
Now he was silently, morosely drunk and, as the evenings progressed , soddenly drunk.
His shirt soddened with sweat.
By contrast, a Scottish artiste might play to sodden Glasgow shipwrights, a restrained middle class audience and a temperance rally in the same week.
With rivers close to bursting and ground sodden from days of downpours, tonight's fresh deluge comes at a particularly vulnerable time. Times, Sunday Times
His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. STARDUST
Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
The boy watched with curiosity as the burnt, sodden pieces of wood peeked out of the water, unmoving.
The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
The fabric was sodden, but the bleeding had ceased, perhaps the vein had collapsed.
The annual Kaman Cup golf day was contested at Nowra on November 24, with 256 players slugging it out on a somewhat sodden track.
It took Robyn ages to peel away the sodden material from her frigid skin.
Although he hit his shot straight at the goalkeeper it slithered and stotted off limbs and the sodden turf before trundling over the line.
_ -- If you rub your bedsteede with squilla stamped with vinaigre, or with the leaves of cedar tree sodden in oil, you shall never feel punese. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
He whipped the bowie knife from the back of his sodden shirt, flashing it; his teeth bared like a cornered cat or jackal.
The steep, descending sides are very soft and sodden, supporting a scanty growth of vegetation, including the small burr known as the "biddy-bid. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The strong north-eastern wind which had been drying out the rain-sodden land was fanning the fire, driving it remorselessly onward.
With rivers close to bursting and ground sodden from days of downpours, tonight's fresh deluge comes at a particularly vulnerable time. Times, Sunday Times
The Flonker carries a 2-3 foot long stick (or Driveller) on the end of which is a beer sodden sponge (or dwile). Lily Bevan: Dwyle Flunking, Cheese Rolling & Face Gurning ... Halloween Alternatives From the UK
The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
Scott arrived a few moments later, his clothes and hair sodden, stepping into the charthouse followed by McDermott. LET NOT THE DEEP
And it is wonder to tell a thing, that Theophrastus saith and telleth that bear's flesh sodden that time (of their sleeping) vanisheth if it be laid up, and is no token of meat found in the almery, but a little quantity of humour .... Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
The grass, being sodden with rain, afforded the young gentleman a rather inhospitable couch; his clothes were considerably bemired; and his hat was rolling in the mud on the other side of the road. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life! Behind the Bungalow
The story begins when she swaps rain-sodden London for sun-kissed France and moves into the summer house of her publisher.
The heavy rain had left the pitch sodden and a tricky crosswind made the kicking game somewhat difficult.
The first snowdrops are nodding their heads under the trees on sodden lawns. Times, Sunday Times
The sodden rocket would not ignite and his soggy parachute failed to open.
She had made some play at dinner for the Finn, as I say, but had made no progress through his sodden self-absorption. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire.
Since this is the season when humidity especially soddens and boredom particularly dispirits, mightn't we impute the same high taste to Bill Bradley's choice of a day in August for announcing that he cannot endure further service in the Senate? Bradley's Escape
Her hair was blackened and sodden, and her skin was yellowing, like parchment or old bread.
The sodden Finn was lolling over a double seat, a half-bottle of vodka protruding from his pocket. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
He was sparingly fed upon weevilled biscuit and vile messes of tallowy rice, and to drink he was given luke-warm water that was often stale, saving that sometimes when the spell of rowing was more than usually protracted the boatswains would thrust lumps of bread sodden in wine into the mouths of the toiling slaves to sustain them. The Sea-Hawk
The man who stood aloof (the sliest, sodden-faced creature I ever saw) came nearer â€” To the question, doctor, and to my part, if you please! â€” Am not I her father? â€” To the question, doctor, if you please! Sir Charles Grandison
The calaboose inmate was not a citizen; he was a poor stranger, a harmless whiskey-sodden tramp.
Thunder rumbled around the rooftops and lightning flashed repeatedly across the sodden skyline.
Christopher Marlowe demanded in "Tamburlaine," his blood-sodden drama about a megalomaniacal one-time shepherd who had swaggered and slaughtered his way to a vast Asiatic empire in the 14th century. The Greatest of Them All
At rain sodden Dr. Cullen Park last Saturday the Wexford border men were within seconds of a repeat victory, only a injury time point from Alan O'Brien salvaging a share of the spoils for the relieved townsmen.
I found the sodden mess in the laundry, saturated to the point where I tried to put them on, but for fear of contracting instantaneous pneumonia I decided against it.
He began drinking heavily, and after one sodden evening at a local bar he rolled his car on the highway.
Nothing ever looked so sad as a sheep with a sodden fleece.
From time to time, as they hurried on, they encountered, and made wide detours to escape contact with knots of wayfarers -- men debased and begrimed, with dreary and slatternly women, arm in arm, zigzaging widely across the sidewalks, chorusing with sodden voices the burden of some popularized ballad. The Black Bag
Why ever would he want to go to Hampstead when he could be here with us partaking of our salubrious sea air and not out on some stifling heat-sodden moor?
Courses play long when fairways become sodden, often making it impossible to reach the greens in regulation. Times, Sunday Times
After six hours the pump had done its job, and there was a slushy sodden mass of tree-seeds and brackish water, and the pump was making a sound like a Jarvik heart filled with oatmeal.
The sodden rosella just sat there and shrilled.
A big grin appeared at the door, followed by the rest of Nigel, his trousers sodden to the waistband.
Keep them moist -- not wet and sodden, but _moist_ all the time. Success with Small Fruits
A shout -- it was a hoarse, inarticulate cry; a swift, maddened scrutiny that searched the sodden scene of the ambush; then he was down beside the mare, calling her name heartbrokenly, his arms around her neck, his face against her warm, wet, velvet hide. Heart of the Sunset
Many of the householders who Prince Andrew chatted to as they loaded skips with sodden carpets and mud-caked furniture were unable to return to their homes for many months.
The streets were filled with a new and different race of people, short of stature, and of wretched or beer-sodden appearance. THE DESCENT
Little of the wheat or spelt in New York made baking quality; farmers just couldn't get into the sodden fields to harvest before the grain sprouted.
Disappointment was the order of the day on Saturday last, as the planned Teddy Bears Picnic has to be called off due to a downpour on Friday night, which left the park in a dangerous and sodden condition.
On my right the walls of the Cathedral rose in a vast wet cliff from the sodden sward and disappeared into the mist which hid the spire. ULTIMATE PRIZES
All of which was a tad harsh on his players after a sodden day's play, so soft and slippy as to be an unreliable indicator of the teams' prospects in the months ahead.
What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from Varenna
From the protoplasmal cell descends the genius; from the loins of the sodden toiler chained to the soil springs the mother of genius or genius itself. The Second Generation
He sprawled across it, gasping the oven-hot air into his mouth, aware of undergarments, sodden with sweat and muscles, athrob with bruises, dimly aware that he had better arise. A Circus of Hells
From moonboots to Barbour jackets via plastic capes and wellies, only a summer festival in rain-sodden Scotland could inspire people to wear the kind of gear you would normally pack for a winter break in Prague.
The heavy rain held up the start for an hour and a half and left sodden fairways and greens to add to the golfers' worries.
They are rinsing the salt from fishing nets and kimonos, drying sodden books, and scrubbing the bone tools with toothbrushes then treating them with alcohol to prevent mold and mildew from growing. Curator Tries to Save Stricken City's History
Crouched shivering at the curtains, that's what, sweating pints at the thought of what those booze-sodden villains would do if they chanced to seek sport abovestairs and discovered that the trembling occupant of the Popplewell chamber was none other than the raider who'd come demanding breakfast ... THE NUMBERS
He clasped the bag of coins to his sodden chest. Man of Honour
If Bea's starter and main course were marginally better than mine, her tasty Drambuie-sodden trifle was comfortably eclipsed by my mouth-watering clootie dumpling and custard.
The steppe of feather grass, and the southern taiga of marshy forests of larch and cedar, and then birch and pine, gives way to frozen or lake-sodden tundra and the ice zones of the north.
Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel.
Leaves were scattered in the high winds and heavy rains, and crops lay battered in sodden fields. Times, Sunday Times
The sky was like a sodden grey blanket, heavy and too low. The Broken God
The blanket was removed and a blood-sodden strip of linen unwound from the German boy's right forearm, which was hanging to his shoulder by a few shreds of flesh and sinew. Combed Out
Gone are the days when tents were a mess of heavy wooden poles and sodden canvas billowing in the wind. Times, Sunday Times
Her cape was a sodden woolen mass, and her walking boots squished unpleasantly when she walked.
By the time I encountered it, at the age of 12 or 13 I recall picking it out of a rotating bookstand, near the door of a bookshop in the Lake District, during one of those rain-sodden childhood holidays, I was already familiar with Clarke as the sober-minded chronicler of near future space exploration. The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
I used to imagine them falling to the ground in showers of microscopic cinders as fast as they entered his whiskey-sodden aura. YAH! YAH! YAH!
We believe, we really do, that Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings will see us puffing dutifully around the rain-sodden streets or enthusiastically grabbing cozzie and towel and setting off for the local baths instead of curling up with a takeaway and a DVD. Home | Mail Online
So the sodden coast, with its long inside reaches and huge mud-land archipelagoes, was avoided by the ships of men, and the fisherfolk knew not that such things were. Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
In the air hung a rank smell of sweaty, sodden clothes. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Leaves are turning and are providing us with a beautiful last blast of colour before they fall and disintegrate into a sodden mush of brown.
The sodden airstrip and aircraft parking areas made flying operations almost impossible.
The sky was clearing, and in the growing light the three of them looked sodden, dirty, and defeated. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
I had undressed her, peeled her sodden clothes from her body.
The pregnant clouds had finally given up, and my sodden t-shirt was beginning to cling unflatteringly.
He portrays a whisky-sodden Catholic priest.
We were both sodden with rain and sweat. Times, Sunday Times
Last sodden weekend I almost felt the need for a ‘right to swim’, so targeted Runswick Bay where the sea would be unobjectionably wet, and the beach is my favourite.
The football pitch was absolutely sodden.
The driving wind and rain made the conditions unplayable on a heavy, sodden surface. The Sun
My sodden hair clings in ropy hanks to my body.
Life was dull, monotonous, and sodden with cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
It is so cold that icicles hang from Joe's sodden coat.
The rear of his race car snapped out of control on the sodden track, pitching him into one barrier and then another and sending a clear warning to the rest of the drivers.
Today we have a bog, a long squelching sodden mire.
But a base of sodden orzo pasta and a sweet blood-orange/habanero mojo sauce do not add to the festivities.
They wheeled, graceful as gulls, whoever their partners-elegant, hatchet-faced dagoes in mangas, red-faced sports sodden on Taos whisky or vino, bearded miners in slouch hats and red shirts, or great clumsy buckskin brigadeers who whooped and yelled and capered like Indians. Isabelle
Customers sloshed through inch-deep water at the door and across a sodden rug to wait at least 45 minutes for burritos and chalupas.
With mid-Atlantic states left sodden by an unusually wet summer, the winds toppled trees and rains flooded creeks and low-lying areas.
Under any circumstances the track would be challenging, but intermittent rains have left the turf and red clay sodden and slick.
The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
Valhall; a very great throng is there, and many more shall yet come; the flesh of the boar Soerfmnir is sodden for them every day, and he is whole again at even; and the mead they drink that flows from the teats of the she-goat Heidhrun. The Story of the Volsungs
The white water rushing over her skin, her sodden clothes dragging her down towards the rocks.
What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from Varenna
Mike looked out of the door at the sodden figure dancing joyously in the water from the sprinklers.
Pink streamers swirled from my sodden jeans, tendrils of crimson whipping off into the water burbling around my boots.
The strong north-eastern wind which had been drying out the rain-sodden land was fanning the fire, driving it remorselessly onward.
Sitting in the sun-sodden upstairs lounge at Midsummer House in Cambridge, overlooking the river, we could smell the rich, meaty push of the stockpots in the kitchen below.
In a world sodden with motivational cobblers which regularly commits grievous bodily harm against the English language, we can be forgiven for being hostile to this sort of stuff. Restaurant review: Create
Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged — for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman and the Dragon
All tied up I carried it to the car taking extra care to support the base which was weak from resting in the sodden duck-muck of the pen.
From where I was standing I could make out a thick ring of sodden weeds that enclosed a smaller circle of deep water.
They are rinsing the salt from fishing nets and kimonos, drying sodden books, and scrubbing the bone tools with toothbrushes then treating them with alcohol to prevent mold and mildew from growing. Curator Tries to Save Stricken City's History
In reporter-editor patois, “fine” is a word sodden with contempt. The Fiddler in the Subway
The football pitch was absolutely sodden.
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel showed that poor attempt at flight with the reconstructed Wright flyer on his late night show -- I noticed that the re-enactor was on a too-short track, at a too-steep pitch, in sodden weather, and didn't have two men holding up the wing tips, unlike the Wrights -- it was a recipe for mud-diving, which he did. View from the Northern Border
By contrast, a Scottish artiste might play to sodden Glasgow shipwrights, a restrained middle class audience and a temperance rally in the same week.
City striker Colin Alcide and Brighton goalkeeper Mark Walton squelch to the rain-sodden turf at Bootham Crescent.
Jennsen pulled a sodden ringlet of red hair back from her face. NAKED EMPIRE
The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
Her expression bespoke good news, a commodity that had been sorely lacking since that morning's sodden sunrise. Kingdoms of Light
Indeed, so grand was the swell that the open terracing at the east side of the ground had to be opened to allow an additional couple of hundred home fans to make sodden homage, continuing to trickle into the ground almost until the break.
To recreate the scene, imagine the aftermath of the battle of Maldon restaged on the nursery ground's sodden and sticky turf: entire divisions of genial, man-shorted, smartphone-braying figures roiling giddily from bench to grass, many already on their knees, others entirely capsized. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
An incoming tide soddens a dropped garment which cannot comfortably be resumed and is often abandoned to be carried out by the receding tide.
Just as you begin to expect the plot to become sodden with tragedy – a child coughs continuously from a bedroom; a young man squares up to his flighty wife with a knife – it slips into something more acerbic. Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan—When the storage vault of this city's ruined library was finally cut open after the tsunami, the historic books inside had been reduced to sodden, mud-coated lumps. City's Identity Wrapped Up in Damaged Papers; Now, Volunteers Race to Restore Their History
Now I was surrounded by bodies pushing towards the sea for holy dip, or returning with wet hair and baskets crammed with sodden clothes. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Heavy afternoon rain left the ground sodden and restricted the game to 11 overs per side. Times, Sunday Times
Sodden and anxious, riverbank dwellers gazed skywards as the heavens opened.
Next we see him stretched out by a tiny fire, pulling off sodden boots, thick socks caked with dirty water which has started to harden.
Pink streamers swirled from my sodden jeans, tendrils of crimson whipping off into the water burbling around my boots.
As he walked his horse down into the camp, the diggers had just ceased work for the day, and with clay-stained and soddened garments were returning to their various tents or "humpies" of bark, all of them contentedly smoking, and ready for their usual supper of salt beef, damper, and tea. Tom Gerrard
From the west and south, the elite Namal and Golani Brigades trundled forward, their tank tracks chewing up the sodden ground.
On my right the walls of the Cathedral rose in a vast wet cliff from the sodden sward and disappeared into the mist which hid the spire. ULTIMATE PRIZES
Thus they went, a sopping sodden mess, each following the other out of the Square past the tall pines of the Mission and the Officers bedraggled salute.
Jennsen pulled a sodden ringlet of red hair back from her face. NAKED EMPIRE
The children froze'then stumbled to their feet and surrounded her, clinging to her sweat-sodden robes, and crying as if their hearts had been broken, then miraculously remended. Fiddler Fair
As she helped Minton ease Lord Thurstow from his sodden coat, she wondered whether Jack Lester had purposely arrived last for greatest effect-or whether his lateness was a reflection of reluctance. A Lady of Expectations
In many areas cattle have been brought indoors from grazing open fields weeks earlier than normal because the ground is sodden. Times, Sunday Times
Customers sloshed through inch-deep water at the door and across a sodden rug to wait at least 45 minutes for burritos and chalupas.
Moreover, the tremendous thunder-storms ran up and down the wires and melted the conductors; the monsoon winds tore the teak-posts out of the sodden ground; the elephants and buffaloes trampled the fallen lines into kinks and tangles; the Delta aborigines carried off the timber supports for fuel, and the wires or iron rods upon them to make bracelets and to supply the Hindoo smitheries; the cotton - and rice-boats, kedging up and down the river, dragged the subaqueous wires to the surface. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
The surface was playable but a sodden pitch ensured passes either held up in standing water or skidded off the wet.
Here, even though we've had more rain than is normal for a wet April, and some fields lay sodden and squelching, we seem to have escaped lightly.
Glasgow's monsoon season has left the Ibrox surface sodden and dead. The Sun
As the car whizzes along the highway, Sonia stares out at the sodden fields.
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
The fields, hillsides and dips in the land were freshly green from recent rain, occasionally dotted with brick houses or sheep, marked out in plots with fences, grey sodden hedges or small trees.
The pizza is dreadful - masses of sodden alfalfa sprouts engulfed in sour cheese. MOON PASSAGE
R—, a woman with whom I was more than casually preoccupied during my last few months in the city, and who belonged to a top-story, hands-off-you-sodden-peasant Garden District social caste, owned a large, enviable collection of 1970s soul LPs that she had arranged in a kind of rampart around her unmade, canopied, arrantly invitational bed. Living With Music: Bill Cotter - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
The success of the show came despite organisers having to rejig the siting of dozens of trade stands, after recent rain left the grassland alongside the runway too sodden for them to be set up.
The residents were piling up sodden carpets and furniture by the roadside, with the rain still teeming down.
This year, several families have made the trip, undeterred by the weather or the sodden campsite where they are staying.
He clasped the bag of coins to his sodden chest. Man of Honour
Whether dusted with snow or rain sodden, the bold dark shapes draw the eye away from dormant shrubs and dozing flower beds. Times, Sunday Times
It had rained all weekend and I was not in the mood to haul a sodden plant into the house and bellow songs.
He shook his rain-sodden hair away from his face, and sent a spray of drops into the air.
Very many trees were uprooted by the combination of high winds and sodden ground.
Two hours later we were elated by antique carving but completely sodden.
We had walked to the shore past sodden clumpy bog and a myriad of gurgling channels weeping silt into the clear water.
Joy was unconfined in Edinburgh last night after Scotland recorded a momentous and record-breaking 21-6 victory over South Africa at a sodden Murrayfield.
Their common anticipations differed in this, that he had expected comeliness, she the reverse -- an Esau of the cities; and seeing superb manly beauty in the place of the thick-featured sodden satyr of her miscreating fancy, the irresistible was revealed to her on its divinest whirlwind. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Eccrine sweat is initially odourless, but patients are embarrassed and inconvenienced by having sodden clothing and damp hands.
Eccrine sweat is initially odourless, but patients are embarrassed and inconvenienced by having sodden clothing and damp hands.
The symptom of sodden branchial disease?
There's always been a bit of a catch 22 about golf - you need to have a handicap to join a club, yet it's very difficult to get that handicap in a civilised way without spending hours on a rain sodden driving range in some murky British suburb.
They showed the visitor to be an illlooking visitor with a squinting leer, who, as he spoke, fumbled at an old sodden fur cap, formless and mangey, that looked like a furry animal, dog or cat, puppy or kitten, drowned and decaying. Our Mutual Friend
Dew soaked grass and rain sodden leaves stubbornly refuse to give up their moisture, allowing the walker to squelch his way across the murky landscape.
Strachey; "howbeit, it is supposed neither of them naturally borne so discolored; for Captain Smith (lyving sometymes amongst them) affirmeth how they are from the womb indifferent white, but as the men, so doe the women," "dye and disguise themselves into this tawny cowler, esteeming it the best beauty to be nearest such a kind of murrey as a sodden quince is of," as the Greek women colored their faces and the ancient The Story of Pocahontas
As to having our delicate beer-sodden feelings protected from the term redneck; well, I appreciate the effort, though I highly suspect that the best way to hide snobbishness is to pose as protector of any class of folks you cannot bear. Monkeyfister
If the fish be a little more than half covered with water, and gradually brought to boil, then well covered down with your sauce-pan lid, and boiled gently till done, it will eat much richer, have a finer flavor, and be more firm than if cooked the old way, or rather drowned in water, which only soddens fish, and takes away the fine firmness so much prized.
Take a Saracen, young and fat; In haste let the thief be slain, Opened, and his skin off flayn; And sodden full hastily, With powder and with spicery, And with saffron of good colour. The Talisman
And the desserts are an oddly dismal lot, from an apple pie in which the fruit is stiff, the crust sodden, to a stodgy strawberry shortcake on hard, stale biscuits.
In her essays and letters, she referred to ‘the fantastic nightmares of William Faulkner,’ ‘the sodden futilitarians and the corncob cavaliers of Mr. Faulkner,’ and ‘Faulkner's school of Raw-Head-and-Bloody-Bones’ fiction.
I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
The women are of the same hue as the men, says Strachey; "howbeit, it is supposed neither of them naturally borne so discolored; for Captain Smith (lyving sometymes amongst them) affirmeth how they are from the womb indifferent white, but as the men, so doe the women," "dye and disguise themselves into this tawny cowler, esteeming it the best beauty to be nearest such a kind of murrey as a sodden quince is of," as the Greek women colored their faces and the ancient Britain women dyed themselves with red; The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
Not for her the sodden fields of Glastonbury or backpacking across a dusty Nepalese valley. The Sun
In the air hung a rank smell of sweaty, sodden clothes. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Here, even though we've had more rain than is normal for a wet April, and some fields lay sodden and squelching, we seem to have escaped lightly.
His grey jersey and trousers were sodden with the rain.
By the time I encountered it, at the age of 12 or 13 I recall picking it out of a rotating bookstand, near the door of a bookshop in the Lake District, during one of those rain-sodden childhood holidays, I was already familiar with Clarke as the sober-minded chronicler of near future space exploration. The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
As anyone who has been swept out of the racecourse's gates on the tsunami of upbeat, sozzled Scouse humanity that marks the close of Ladies' Day will attest, it makes your average, drink-sodden Cheltenham Festival look like a four-day meeting of the Temperance Society. Raucous Grand National celebration misses only the winner Ballabriggs
With rivers close to bursting and ground sodden from days of downpours, tonight's fresh deluge comes at a particularly vulnerable time. Times, Sunday Times
Lepard uses wholemeal flour, which I think makes his cake unnecessarily heavy however – it's already squidgy and sodden with fruit and treacle, so why over-egg the pudding as it were? How to cook perfect Christmas cake
The desaturated colours and muddy, rain sodden English countryside creates an air of foreboding entirely appropriate for a work that is more serious than its title suggests.
No sooner have you thumbed the remote control, than legions of sherry-sodden aunts, bickering uncles and brattish weans are filing out of your living room.
the speaker's sodden collar
And the sodden, stupefied merchantman, as if drunk with opium, goes yelling and staggering with her sleepy drugs to the bottom, and stays there, sycee silver and all. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life! Behind the Bungalow

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