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Discover LudwigThe word "sodden" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as an adjective to describe something that has been soaked in water (or other liquid), making it saturated and heavy. Example sentence: After days of heavy rain, the fields were a sodden landscape of mud and puddles.
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sodden
adjective
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
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Electric Zoo's festivalgoers seemed sodden and miserable.
Hilaire Belloc described the Midlands as "sodden and unkind", and when Leicester council engaged a London advertising agency to boost the city's image, it was naturally offered an achingly ironic campaign with the slogan "Boring, boring Leicester".
He did just that, throwing caution to the winds on the sodden curves, roundabouts and dead turns to post a time of 19min 54sec for the 10 miles, which was exemplary given the difficult conditions.
Yet for a man who has lived in Florence and Sicily as well as Rome, Liverani is remarkably upbeat having spent the majority of a bleak winter morning on a sodden training field in east London, at the club's Chigwell base where he makes the daily commute from Mayfair.
Soon the sprayers emerge from cane, sodden from the rain-drenched foliage.
My days are sodden in a never-ending mixture of love and concern for this tiny boy who probably doesn't even recognise me yet.
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The difference is that the Rat Pack's gin-sodden original was plodding, preening, and almost unwatchable, while Soderbergh's remake is an irresistible, effervescent champagne-cocktail of a heist-movie.
The British tabloids no longer revile him; the battles with Margaret Thatcher have faded into EU folklore; and the all-night squabbles in rain-sodden Brussels are someone else's headache.
Families graze on cholesterol-sodden take-aways and microwaved ready-meals.
The vendors in the 1707 sales, and many others, claimed that their supplies were captured by British ships in the fighting; but they probably weren't.In the 18th century drinking claret helped the rich to distinguish themselves from England's port-sodden squirearchy.
The region suffers disproportionately from Russia's demographic curse a 142m-strong population shrinking by 700,000 a year because of low birth rates and vodka-sodden ill-health.
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