Example Sentences

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She might slip a salmon fillet atop chevroned layers of lemon slices or onto a well-soaked cedar plank.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2022

The meal was unexpectedly enlivened by Grandmother's discovery of a well-soaked milk ticket in the pitcher.

From Master of the Vineyard by Reed, Myrtle

One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

This perfume is rather difficult to describe, but when a rainy day in London crams an omnibus with well-soaked and steaming multitudes, the atmosphere in the vehicle somewhat approaches to the smell of the jack-fruit.

From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

But a Tortoise in a neighbouring garden does every morning consume a very substantial quantity of bread and milk, or rather bread well-soaked in milk, and he appears to thrive well upon it. 

From Addresses & Papers / Collectanea by Eade, Peter