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- adverb In a
sodden (soakingwet ) manner.
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Examples
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For Slate's Dana Stevens, a second viewing can't change her mind; Notes on a Scandal is still "a movie that clomps soddenly where it should scamper nimbly."
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Initially thrilled to be in the company of writers who were even then making their mark, her enthusiasm dimmed as the evening wore soddenly on.
Books: It's My Party 2007
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Remember the time when the Congressman was making out with a young intern as his press spokesman stood soddenly by, doing nothing?
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Remember the time when the Congressman was making out with a young intern as his press spokesman stood soddenly by, doing nothing?
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Remember the time when the Congressman was making out with a young intern as his press spokesman stood soddenly by, doing nothing?
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We marched soddenly to our breakfast, and filed into an uncharacteristically quiet mess.
Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005
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It was easily in the nineties, in terms both of temperature and humidity, and my thin petticoats clung soddenly to my lower limbs.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Kim had reeled to a room with a cot in it, and was dozing soddenly.
Kim 2003
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Pineo and Mazurek are silently, soddenly drunk, isolated from their surround, but the life of the bar seems to glide around Bobby and Alicia, the jukebox rocks with old Santana, Kinks, and Springsteen.
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The flowers browned and fell soddenly to the earth.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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