(p. p.) Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.
(v. i.) To be seethed; to become sodden.
(v. t.) To soak; to make heavy with water.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(2) Britain's sodden fields mean the debate about climate change is now no longer confined to some abstruse problem affecting glaciers in far-off countries.
(3) Here was a woman, "dismal, drab, embarrassing," sodden with "self-pity," who in the Golden Notebook had single-handedly set back the women's movement "a good long way".
(4) Twelve miles north across sodden fields at the confluence of the rivers Bosna and Sava, Samac was the last Bosnian town to be hit by flooding, and the last where waters receded.
(5) The stands are empty; the pitch, still sodden and scarred from recent international rugby union clashes, is unused.
(6) The house was freezing and water was leaking from a ceiling light socket on Jaffar as he tried to sleep in his sodden bed.” The family continued to suffer racist abuse, according to social services, as did Ibrahim Kamara and his mother Khadijah.
(7) This being rain-sodden rural Devon, and the roads being narrow and flooded, the journey took me the best part of 45 minutes each way, and Richard, one of the Bothy's owners, very kindly accompanied me in his four by four for the first stretch, to make sure my ailing Toyota Yaris got through the floods.
(8) "I'm ill, my body is reacting to this," said Colic from the sodden concrete space that was once her front room.
(9) Still, we could have done with a Jubilee-style cutaway to the sodden picnickers sitting on drenched rugs, clutching rain-diluted fizz as their bottoms, now unquestionably soggy, sank into the mud.
(10) Each bubble has had to be bigger than the last in order to get the growth back to something considered acceptable, which is why the US went into this crisis with debt-sodden consumers and over-extended banks.
(11) There are few kitchen sights sadder than a deep-tin drizzle cake which is sodden on top with a bone dry bottom.
(12) With this in mind, I'd like to thank Kerry for the heart-swelling joy of seeing her stand in the rain, and with due regard for decent taste, craning her neck for a better view in her plastic mac and sodden deely boppers.
(13) A sodden October night in Stoke proved as demoralising for José Mourinho as it sounds as the Capital One Cup holders, having taken this fourth-round tie into extra time thanks to Loïc Rémy’s stoppage-time equaliser, were knocked out of the competition to compound the pressure bearing down on the Chelsea manager.
(14) In one diary Napper referred to several women, calling one a "sodden filthy bitch".
(15) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(16) At that stage the Poles appeared to be wilting, their conviction draining quicker than the sodden pitch, only for England to doze off.
(17) It wasn't as wild as the US embassy in Kabul, but Nicholson's officers were nevertheless incredulous when they learned that the office had held an alcohol-sodden "Lash Vegas Pimps and Hos" bash while the marines were struggling to pacify Marja.
(18) Those economies, such as the UK and the United States, that have become progressively more unequal – FTSE 100 directors’ pay rose 21% last year, while average wages remain tightly squeezed – have also become progressively more debt-sodden and more vulnerable to financial crises.
(19) Men and women in hi-vis jackets and blue chest-high waders fill wheelbarrows with woodchips and spread them on the sodden riverbank.
(20) As I was standing, with a sodden piece of cardboard around my neck, slowly turning to mush in the rain, knowing that the pre-sales to the show were nil, I saw one of my former colleagues walk towards me.
Soggy
Definition:
(superl.) Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
(2) If you're on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried nearly-meat and soggy chips, it's your lucky night.
(3) It has what Hab's design director, Isabel Allen, calls a "muddy, soggy landscape" which has the added benefit that it is fun for children to play in it.
(4) The record sheet rapidly dissolved into a soggy pulp of blood and chlorine.
(5) Unlike Mary, though, Birgitta is not obsessed with "soggy bottoms" but "dödbakade bottnar" ("deadbaked bottoms"), and I can't see Birgitta pulling off soignée Mary's Zara silk bomber.
(6) Frankly, there's too much 'can't do' sogginess around.
(7) We were turned back," said Umm Anis, a widow living in a soggy tent with her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
(8) The women had no electricity and no roof – merely a soggy fabric tarpaulin stretched between two walls.
(9) 8.15pm BST Ruby doesn't know what to do with her un-soggy, practically perfect pie.
(10) Dance, who was flooded five years ago, said he was sorry for those going through the soggy misery he endured then.
(11) The cold winter, reasonably decent summer and good old-fashioned spring and autumn benefited many kinds of fauna that had suffered through previous mild wet winters and soggy summers.
(12) At a soggy, fraught Carrow Road Sunderland eased their way to victory over Norwich City that left the home team looking ominously deflated.
(13) "It's just that lacklustre industrial production data, the soggy July monthly services reading and mediocre retail sales have undermined faith in a super-strong outcome," Clarke said.
(14) Your country – your soggy, soggy country – needs you.
(15) Another surprise is the make-up of a group of yes campaigners out on a soggy night delivering leaflets round Barmulloch, another of the deprived areas of Glasgow's East End.
(16) Still, we could have done with a Jubilee-style cutaway to the sodden picnickers sitting on drenched rugs, clutching rain-diluted fizz as their bottoms, now unquestionably soggy, sank into the mud.
(17) Now, whenever I'm afraid of something, I just say, man, I'm not going to get soggy; I'm just going to go into it.
(18) A utumn in the North Cascades National Park and soggy clouds cling to the peaks of the mountains that inspired the musings of Beat poets such as Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg 60 years ago.
(19) The next day, our children's Christmas concert – always a soggy-necked display of intense love and pride – wasn't shared by my husband, and I felt sad and guilty to be there alone.
(20) The journey has caused the burger to steam into greyness, glueing itself to its soggy bun.The £32 steak appears, cowering in the corner of its container like a whipped puppy.