Adjective, : a soggy novel. From Dictionary.com.
Lynley took up his cup in which a Typhoo tea bag drooped soggily against the side. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
He felt the glancing contact; the wall gave soggily and he bounced off after clinging for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Voyage]
Thinking there might be something of interest beneath it, I heaved valiantly until it rolled over and settled on its back soggily. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Not long after our breakup I arrived in London for a television performance, and the city cooperated soggily with my baleful mood. From Wordnik.com. [Living Alone and Loving It] Reference
Pages three to seven of the original version were at the moment floating soggily on the Damogran sea some five miles out from the bay. From Wordnik.com. [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
In the two weeks since Fay made landfall and snaked soggily up the peninsula, the lake has rocketed from record lows to a record rise. From Wordnik.com. [In Other News...] Reference
Grant felt the ship move under his feet, first this way, then that, but only soggily, not sharply as had been true while they were still in the hypodermic. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Voyage]
In the countryside now, the soggily ripening crops and the rampant green of hedges and woods seem to have far less to do with each other than they did in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference
The tiring evening ended at last in clearing skies, and devoted enduring fireworks fanatics let off rainbow-coloured pop-pop sparkling starbursts in soggily dripping back gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
He read them in the summerhouse with the doors closed against the rain that was slanting down through the leaves of the almond tree, frail leaves that fell soggily into the sodden grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Rapunzel]
From one perspective, it seems odd: there's already email of sorts within Facebook, and instant messaging, so why would it want to let its brand start to spread soggily around the web by going free of the site?. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook's rumoured email offering raises hopes of a spam-free future.. too high?] Reference
I marched soggily up many hills in the town before I found the walls. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Outside, the palm leaves were dripping in the night fog that had swept soggily in from the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Sawtooth Ranch] Reference
Her jibs, swashing soggily about her bow, were hoisted out of the water, and a gust bellied them. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
But he didn't try; he just set there soggily drinking champagne to drown the memory of his lost watch. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
Her lower-topsails hung in limp emptiness from the yards, heavy with rain and flapping soggily when she rolled. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
The sweater, wrapped about the post where, in summer, a wooden sailor brandished his paddles, flapped soggily in the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Shavings] Reference
They were sleepy and their clothing stuck soggily to them, and none of them had had anything warm in his stomach for many hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Ersatz] Reference
How strong he was -- and, oh, how miserably wet -- her hand around his shoulder felt the thin shirt clinging soggily to his arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Miracle Man] Reference
The handful of us who'd been soggily sprinting through the Texas night bonded over our plight when we finally found refuge at a diner. From Wordnik.com. [Anil Dash] Reference
By late afternoon and after a morale raising phone conversation with AJ of Chester, a sudden down pour has me soggily wandering in to the town of. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Eventually, in front of me, solemnly sat a faintly-smoking urine-coloured circular broth, in which soggily hung half-suspended slabs of raw potato. From Wordnik.com. [The Enormous Room] Reference
It was a full-page picture of a big gas-range, and slowly, as he scanned it for some hidden charm or value, it split in two and fell soggily back to its mates. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eve Edgarton] Reference
But Sandy refused to be left behind, and he also objected to a rider that rode soggily, ka-lump, ka-lump, like a bag of meal tied to the horn with one saddle string. From Wordnik.com. [Skyrider] Reference
By early the next day, after a restless night, the ship had settled so much, despite the lightening process, that she rode soggily along at not more than fifty feet above the level of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest] Reference
But the sound was not repeated while he listened -- only as his footfalls sounded soggily on the damp path were they punctuated by this still, small sound, that he could not localize or remember. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference
"He might have a pair, that occasionally impact soggily. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
soggily boarded the ferry, strangely feeling much better. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
We don’t have Marx-Was-A-Moron Day, when all the fourth-graders bring eggs to throw at an effigy, which we then soggily burn. From Wordnik.com. [Sympathy for Homophobic Parents] Reference
Then at the very end there’s a big set-piece Fighty-fight, although the notional drama of it bounced off my soggily worn-down imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 5: The Fires of Heaven (1993)] Reference
“Mr. Kim,” he said soggily, “advise the crew to stabilize all stations after we leave the nebula, and all department heads report back to Mr. Carey on the ship’s condition and damage, if any.”. From Wordnik.com. [Flashback] Reference
He had become soggily drunk. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
O Canada to ring out, however soggily. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
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