Etymology
Origin of sudsy
Example Sentences
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That’s a lot of weeks that undergarment has avoided a date with some warm, sudsy water over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Indebted to the glamour of Roxy Music, rhythm-heavy post-punk and sudsy symphonic pop, the album swoons with romance and heartbreak.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2022
Prepare to get sudsy at this family-friendly event, which features a pre-party with giant foam cannons spewing bubbles, followed by multicolored bubbles during the race and a “mini-music festival” after party with even more suds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
How Pnin drops a leggy nutcracker into the sudsy sink full of glass and hears a mysterious crack.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
The hours of strong soap and sudsy fleece had accomplished what years of cold water never had—her hands were really clean.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
But in high-efficiency washers, in which laundry rotates in a drum and is sprayed with water and not continually submerged, more detergent means sudsier clothes.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 23, 2014
“I opened my eyes for a second, not believing that what I’d dreamed of was happening,” she writes, and it only gets sudsier from there.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2011
Instead, I've been glued to a true-life Web spin-off that's even sudsier than the real thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
In perhaps the sudsiest scene, Lady Marjorie gives up her young man, the Roddy Llewellyn of 1906.
From Time Magazine Archive
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