Sentence examples for drenched- from inspiring English sources

When these people arrive at Australian detention centres, they are left with severe sunburn and skin rashes, sitting in clothing drenched with faeces and urine while they await interrogation.

Sometimes he would turn up drenched in the purple dye used by the army to identify rioters, and always he would be loquacious; eager for debate.

Yes, the triangular-format Benson and Hedges World Series Cup was King, and we were its willing subjects, happy to be drenched in beer and hit with pieces of roast chicken (or a whole frozen one if your name was Pat Symcox) every time the bogans of Bay 13 went up.

Think of it like trick-or-treating, with the trick being that the women who answer the door must get drenched.

Featuring blasts of brass, scratchy guitars and percolating synth noise, it's drenched in the band's typical sense of paranoia but somehow sounds more relaxed.

According to singer Kristian Bell, Annabel Dream Reader is "a shameless breakup album", though the lyrics are often too drenched in reverb and Bell's Cobainesque howl to be decipherable.

A rain-drenched saltire hung limply on a flagpost in the backcourt.

More mundane items are also available - including a couple of thousand parking cones, a pack of accreditation pass straps and some battered mops which had seen considerable action during the rain-drenched closing ceremony.

Soon the sprayers emerge from cane, sodden from the rain-drenched foliage.

The Argentinian forward fired Valencia ahead in the 53rd minute at a sun-drenched Mestalla, his shot deflected beyond the Real Sociedad goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli off the defender Jon Ansotegui.

In his autobiographical writings on Algiers and on the Roman ruins at Tipasa, he describes a pagan place where classical values were still alive and visible in the harsh but beautiful, sun-drenched landscape.