Example Sentences
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Kyril Kasimoff shuddered at the thought of the Beverly Crest Blüthner being hauled away like so much debris, as if its elegant frame was just another piece of soddened, shattered wood.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024
Rain began to fall, soddened their straw sombreros, shortened their tempers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The car went cautiously down the soddened white path, under the trees.
From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
You are played out as an essayist: your ardor is soddened, your intellectual substance crumbled, by the attempt to keep up the work of your twenties in your thirties.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
From the high French windows, I could catch a glimpse of a long stretch of soddened lawn, beyond which everything was shrouded in the semi-obscurity of the fast-falling dusk, deepened by the grey, cloudy sky.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
