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His green backpack sits at his feet, and it’s sopping wet, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
“He’ll be sopping wet before he even gets his boots on,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
Ajax came sopping wet into the room and lay down on the bed to let the air dry him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
They tried to stop it with rags but they only turned sopping wet and let the rain in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
Henry looked away from the preacher and pulled off his sopping work boots. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
To return home a sopping soldier in tight new clothes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
After a few minutes she returned, her sopping hair plastered to her face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Hagrid came back, his long hair and beard sopping wet, wiping the water out of his eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
She was sopping by the time she got back in the car. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
The stretchers are sopping wet by the time the train arrives in the morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ralph lay his sopping jacket in Helen’s arms, across the shoes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Others heaved the sopping clothes into the dryers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
She was sopping wet when he entered her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
I tried to clean my glasses on my sopping, filthy shirt. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
She dragged hunks of meat across her plate, sopping up sauce before lifting her fork to her mouth. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z
P. T. bounded ahead, leaping fishlike from one brown sea to the next, then turning back to herd the two of them forward, nipping at their heels and further splashing their already sopping jeans. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z
“Excellent, except the crocks are absorbent and are sopping up all the juice.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
Despite being sopping wet, Mr. Flux had managed to hang on to his stovepipe hat. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
He’s nervous that she’ll be disappointed by the choice, but when the food arrives she eyes it approvingly, and she eats heartily, quickly, sopping up the leftover sauce on her plate with bread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Her camouflage jacket was sopping and she smelled like sewage. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
He wiped his sopping face with a sleeve. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
She looks insane, her hair sopping, plastered to her face. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
The boys put on dry clean clothes, which were exact replicas of the sopping clothes they were taking off. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
But Mother was sopping with spring, too, and Daddy, and Joe. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
Your new skirt was sopping wet below the raincoat that stretched only to your knees. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Their own retainers made a busy sight with houseboys mixing bowls of water and wine, or sopping water up in sponges, wiping tables to be placed about in hall, or butchering whole carcasses for roasting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
She breathed fast through her nose and tried to ignore the nauseating stink of sopping sawdust rising from the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
June and August, sopping wet, stooped on either side of her, while mosquitoes sang in our ears and the river went on about its business, coiling off into the darkness. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’m afraid I will cry, great sopping tears of reconciliation. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
She was wet all down her front, absolutely sopping with spring, as Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
I still washed our clothes at the Laundromat, but I carried them home sopping wet and laid them all over the kitchen counters and the floor to let them dry. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Emerging from his goblet, coughing, sopping wet but still grinning, he saw something calculated to raise his spirits even higher: Draco Malfoy being dragged by the ear toward them by Argus Filch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
Harry, Ron, and Hermione slipped and slid across the entrance hall and through the double doors on the right, Ron muttering furiously under his breath as he pushed his sopping hair off his face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
As he pulled himself out, he looked round among the sopping rabbits in the alders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The bookstore was run by seeming quintuplets, by five short, bald men chewing unlit cigars that were sopping wet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then he follows Jeanne and Jacob as they run, keeping the glistening causeway beneath their sopping leather shoes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
She used her foot to move the towel around, sopping up as much water as she could. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Tiara bent over a prone pirate and swept the sopping hair from his face. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
“Maybe we could go see Mary Toy next Sunday,” said Papa, sopping up sorghum syrup with his biscuit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
Beowulf grabbed one glass of champagne after another off a nearby serving tray and tossed them at her, until her dress was sopping and her hair dripped in wet tendrils. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
He’d sidestepped too fast—someone had been rushing between the lab tables with a sopping dead cat in their hands—and he’d slammed into me just as I was walking up. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
Her skin was bloody and her clothes were torn and sopping, but she was alive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
There, in the sea-star field, they swam and played tag, until everything they owned was sopping wet and clean as they could get it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
The screeching alarm, the panicked bakers, the sopping cakes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
My hair is sopping wet, too, so I quickly squeeze out as much water as I can. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
“You mean take some guy’s sopping wet clothes out of the dryer and—and what?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
And every time a show closed, there was Uncle Al, sopping up the remains: a few train cars, a handful of stranded performers, a tiger, or a camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
Then my legs folded under me, and I sat down in the sopping grass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
Winky did stop crying, but when she sat up she was glaring at Hermione through her massive brown eyes, her whole face sopping wet and suddenly furious. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I’d been busy sopping up turkey gravy with the last of the bread, but now I looked up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
But when she felt the corpse floating beside her, she started pulling Pita out of the water as if she were a sopping Raggedy Ann doll. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
“Don’t ask me,” Myrtle shouted, emerging with a wave of yet more water, which splashed onto the already sopping floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Fern’s sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z
It was sopping, but the Dacron wouldn’t rot or soak up water and would dry rapidly up in the open. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
The wastebasket is crammed with sopping sanitary pads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
"You're fooling yourself," he says, sopping up sauce with his last piece of bread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
The one on the floor was sopping wet and striped green with slime from the aquarium, which lay on its side, empty and cracked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
I take out the envelope with the photograph, set it safely on the sugar tin, and hang my sopping coat beside the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
Still, he refused to let it go; it was the only thing, he said, that matched his muddy, sopping, finely tailored suit. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
But I couldn’t exactly go to Mr. Ferris’s class in a sopping wet T-shirt, and I had to change it before everyone else came back to the locker room because of you know why. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
No leavening is used: The screaming-hot beef fat and high oven temperature mean that the pudding puffs and then deflates into a crisp-but-custardy mass, ideal for sopping up gravy. For Christmas With the McCartneys, a Vegan Yorkshire Pudding 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z
And so, on a weekend of sagging cloud and sopping air, we met in Ammanford, 45 minutes north of Swansea. Story of a male escort 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z
I like the ratio of a straight-cut fry when I'm eating them as an entrée, or alongside something that doesn't offer any opportunities for sopping. The absolute best way to cook french fries, according to so many tests 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z
When we got to our spot, the red carpet was sopping, and sections of the roof were being replaced. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z
The vibe turned into a sopping wet party of grateful diners who hovered while waiters reseated guests and rushed to haul in their unfinished plates — clearly a practiced routine. A Rare Gem of a Restaurant in Lagos 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z
The two actors were sopping wet, their clothes sticking to their skin. How Do You Make a Play About Water? Drop by Drop 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z
Cooked as written, the sauce will probably turn out on the brothy side, great for pouring over rice or couscous, or for sopping up with hunks of soft-crumbed bread. A Sweet Goodbye to Pepper and Tomato Season 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z
It’s forkable, ideal for sopping and ready to play nice with whatever else is on the plate. 3 Brilliant Ways to Transform Leftover Stuffing 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z
In a mesmerizing billboard-size video, a pair of ruby red lips and tongue twist and turn through a scarlet sludge; we might be watching a deep-sea creature sopping up dinner. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z
A family of Burmese migrants fleeing across a river to Thailand on the inner tube of a tyre are “sopping and stick-thin, with nothing left to their name but résumés of cheap sweat”. With a cause 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z
Outside, everyone is sopping, squelching, poised to erupt. Cannes diary: day seven 2012-05-22T13:56:07Z
On “Voices,” his voice is sopping wet, low to the ground and bumpy. Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Metamodern Sounds in Country Music’ 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z
I remember the cream being so delicious and meaty, sopping it up with bread. This top chef can trace her passion for cooking to an offal beginning 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z
It's a necessity for sopping up every last bit of luscious sauce. Think chicken is boring? These inspired takes on Italian-American classics will change your mind 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z
After slipping it from its peach-coloured pouch, you have to pull away a sheet of white “lace” to reveal its dark, sopping glory. Vulva masks and labia serums: the marketing of women’s genital shame 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z
You show no signs of stopping, But I can’t be the only one Whose clothes may all be sopping When my day here with you is done. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z
He entered the restaurant with his own baggage — the sopping wet variety. He believes talking about politics on a first date is impolite. She’s a communist. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z
A one-pan situation with crusty bread for sopping provided a natural starting point. Egg cookery by emotional state: An essential guide 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z
No one seemed to mind that I was sopping wet, wearing a bathing suit and shorts. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z
Serve with lots of crusty bread for sopping up every last bit of that garlicky broth. What to do with garlic scapes — plus, the best recipes that use this curly plant 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z
Watching them all lined up, shivering, sopping, miserable and coutured, was a reminder that the exhaustion of life comes for all of us. Perspective | Help, I keep watching Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop TV show 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z
They are a lip-smacking dinner-at-the-ready served in a bowl with a simple side salad and some crusty bread for sopping up their smoky, tangy tomato sauce. These tapas meatballs make great party nibbles 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z
You get sopping wet, and hard rain stabs. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Corny jokes for preteen folks inspired this edition of ‘Rhymes Against Humanity’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z
My kitchen towels have stains on them from sopping up sauces and averting curry catastrophes. Just give up on your sheet pans 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z
I can feel my pajama bottoms sopping with blood, and the thought is nauseating. They were my life support: My life-threatening health crisis brought out the best in my friends 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z
Serve with rice or crusty bread for sopping up the sauce. The Spanish dish that translates into weeknight fave 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z
"You kind of look like a really good cook, and it's a great vehicle for sopping up sauce, and for sopping up protein and sopping up even vegetables." Top chefs cook at home on a budget, too. Here are their secrets for getting it done. 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z
A young girl is resting on the grass in the sunshine after a swim, while over her shoulder a sopping poodle gives us a protective stare. The Mysterious Relationship Between Pets and Their Owners 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z
“I’m clumsy,” she said, sopping it up with insufficient napkins. Jane Lynch Finds Herself 2011-09-16T22:44:26Z
This was on a sopping morning at Rio Supermarket, a Brazilian grocery in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. Actress Morena Baccarin Cooks a Brazilian Stew 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z
Will winter recede to a soggy fantasy spring, leaving everyone’s big fur capes and complicated braid hairdos sopping and unwieldy? Ed Sheeran? Incest? Ice dragons? How Game of Thrones might end 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z
She then carved off another fleshy chunk and aimed it at me with one hand while sopping up the steak juice with a once-beautiful piece of honey wheat bread with the other. You deserve better than a well-done steak 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z
The char, the fat, the squishy perfection of processed bread sopping up the overflowing juices — doesn't it somehow seem like Americans' birthright? Even one of Trump’s favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z
Smooth and creamy with exotic sweetness and spice — and baguette slices for sopping — the dish was nourishing all on its own. A Ha! moment: Fremont eatery overhauls menu 2012-12-13T22:09:09Z
Serve as a first or main course with a baguette, for sopping up the sauce. This top chef can trace her passion for cooking to an offal beginning 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z
I lifted my hand to wipe it off and noticed my hair was sopping. How one hour of slow breathing changed my life 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z
“We were sopping wet, so Bill gave us clothes to wear while ours dried,” Glimcher said. At 83, Arne Glimcher Indulges His Inner Curator 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z
You kind of look like a really good cook and it's a great vehicle for sopping up sauce and for sopping up protein and sopping up even vegetables. Will Joe Beef survive the apocalypse? 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z
“Beauty, how long can you hold your breath under water?” one calls out to the sopping wet woman in the wedding gown. The fantasy world of pre-wedding photos: inside China's billion-dollar industry 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z
This past summer, even sopping Sasquatch bergs such as Quileute on the Olympic Peninsula have seen only 42% of normal rainfall since June, with just a little over 3 inches recorded at the Quileute Airport. After dry spring and summer, luscious rains soak Seattle area 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z
I loved how honest and mature Seema is about voicing herself, even while standing outside in salon capes with sopping wet hair. Carrie and Aidan's five-year plan and more thoughts on the 'And Just Like That' Season 2 finale 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z
Halfway through the two-hour performance, sweat had turned his shimmering white garb into a sopping gray getup, and he drew ear-piercing screams from the crowd once he finally removed his shirt to perform “Sungba.” Pan-Africanism, family and the Wu: The gospel of Burna Boy 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z
“I use it to clean out garbage cans and hang clothes that are sopping wet. I hose off my shoes after gardening, so I don’t track mud everywhere,” she said. ‘Barkitecture’ puts dogs at the center of home design 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z
We recommend bulking up this meal with warm, crusty bread, which is delicious for sopping up the steak juices that mix with the dressing. Steak salad with walnuts and goat cheese: Thin seared steak makes this salad a snap 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z
Serve it with orzo, rice or crusty bread for sopping up the luscious juices. This shrimp and feta skillet deserves to be in your regular rotation 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z
Neither team found a way to find the net; both walked off sopping wet but still unbeaten. Aubrey Kingsbury stays strong to keep the Spirit’s unbeaten start going 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z
A little later, he compares the state to “a hot towel from somebody else’s bath flung sopping across your face.” Review | Charles Frazier sets his eyes on the West in a gritty, suspenseful novel 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z
I pair that with a bed of Swiss chard, with mushrooms sopping up all the flavors in the pot. Celebrate the flavors of spring with this harvest bowl 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z
India is sopping up foreign direct investment in green hydrogen, so called because it is produced with renewable energy. India Chases Clean Energy, but Economic Goals Put Coal First 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z
David Goldwyn, who was a top State Department energy official in the Obama administration, said he worried about governments sopping up extra profits from renewable-energy companies, because they had often had very lean years. Will Taxing the Windfall Profits of Oil Giants Fix Countries’ Economies? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z
So too were his supporters, some of whom, sopping wet or protected by ponchos, had been waiting more than 45 minutes. Texas Democrats Look to a Future Beyond Beto 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z
With catchments already sopping wet, any downpours could trigger more widespread flooding for eastern and northern Australia. Once a comfort, rain is now ruining Australia's mood 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z
Her carpets were sopping and her floors were covered with a dark brown liquid. Hurricane Ian Leaves Behind a Staggering Scale of Wreckage in Florida 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z
The melted butter mixed with the Cajun seasoning formed a mahogany puddle at the bottom of the tin for sopping the head-on prawns and fries. This Shoreline seafood boil will require both hands. It’s worth the mess 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z
They were both sopping wet after climbing out of the lake. For Transgender Young People, a Haven From the Outside World.With S’Mores. 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z
Making matters worse, it dries out very slowly, so even if the rain stops, your sopping cotton shirt may keep sapping warmth from your body. Xbox is campy now 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z
Uncharacteristically wet, cloudy weather in May kept most bees away, the flowers hidden and his rain gear sopping, but that didn’t bother Mader. Wild bees, threatened by warming and wildfires, get help from WA researchers 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z
There’s a moment before disintegration when the biscuit is sopping. Make your own digestive biscuits for tea time or any time 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z
It was only around 10 p.m. that we added to the week’s sopping, soaking total and brought the four-day rainfall figure to about 2.50 inches. This wet week upheld April’s reputation for showers 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z
And yes, we also want to see Tatum emoting in a sopping wet T-shirt — which the filmmakers happily deliver. Review: How is Channing Tatum's directorial debut? Playful, laidback and pretty good 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z
They are ninth-best at sopping quality shots, according to expected goals against. Analysis: Poorly timed goals allowed have stung, but that’s not the Kraken’s biggest issue in first season 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z
People sprinting back and forth have trouble breathing through their masks and often leave them sopping with sweat. D.C.-area business owners greet news of omicron variant with anxiety and resignation 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z
Tom Hinckley kicked through leaves on a sopping morning at the Washington Park Arboretum. Bomb cyclone winds stressed Pacific Northwest trees early this year, while still full of leaves 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z
That seesaw in weather conditions—from bone dry to sopping wet—is a taste of what’s to come as the Earth heats up, scientists say. Climate Change Magnified Recent California Deluge 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z
Cool and moist, but not sopping wet, is the best environment for such greens as kale, collards and chard. How to store apples, broccoli, potatoes and more fall and winter produce
“Where are we going to go?” she asked, shaking her head as she surveyed her living room, where several sopping wet photo albums with baby pictures of their sons lay nearby. They Put Everything Into Their Homes. Not One Was Spared in the Flood. 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z
On 25th Street, David King threw out sopping wet mats and swept brown muddy water out of his bike shop Thursday. Northeast officials vow to make changes after nearly 50 storm-related deaths in Ida’s wake 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z
But it's that "sopping wet" part that became a problem this week when the gym sent out a memo bringing back their indoor mask mandate. It's OK to blame the unvaccinated — they are robbing the rest of us of our freedoms 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z
Businesses stayed open and fruitlessly attempted to keep their doorways clean as customers walked in with sopping boots. Russians grumbled over last year’s mild winter – now Moscow has a ‘snow apocalyse’ 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z
Within a few minutes, my whole body was sopping. My ‘Long Covid’ Nightmare: Still Sick After 6 Months 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z
Or when it begins sopping up enormous resources that, in my opinion, we should be directing toward establishing that these treatments are actually effective, as opposed to throwing darts at a dartboard. Shortcuts in COVID-19 Drug Research Could Do Long-Term Harm, Bioethicists Worry 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z
As the threat of climate change has grown more severe, researchers and governments have identified peatlands as ideal targets for stopping emissions, and even sopping up carbon. How peat could protect the planet 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z
Exercising at home for the past year was fine, but nothing beats a 45-minute spin class for leaving one red-faced and sopping wet with sweat. It's OK to blame the unvaccinated — they are robbing the rest of us of our freedoms 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z
“Oh my goodness, it’s sopping!” says a woman as she lifts up her magenta strapless gown heading into the show. I took the subway to the Oscars. It was just the beginning of a wild ride 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z
The baguette is perfect for sopping up broth — but if you don’t want bread, you can always hit the hot bar for a scoop of white or brown rice. Head to Ballard for made-to-order, delicious seafood cioppino at a restaurant within the PCC 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z
“We’ve been battling so many years to be able to push through,” Scherzer said in a raucous and sopping visitors’ clubhouse. Perspective | For heroic Nationals, ghosts of playoffs past are busted in Game 5 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z
A hospital evacuated some patients but remained open, with employees trudging barefoot across the sopping floor to treat the patients who remained. For Some in Texas, Imelda’s Heavy Rain Feels Like Harvey 2.0 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z
The Open turned into a sopping wet adventure for its two leaders at 9. Ireland’s Shane Lowry wins British Open in tournament’s return to Northern Ireland 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z
He stood there in a sopping pink dress shirt and tried to call his father again. After extreme flooding, residents begin cleaning up and drying out 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z
Plus, he and his collaborators play so handsomely, practically dehydrating this sopping music with lucidity and precision. Opinion | After a long, strange trip . . . all your indie faves sound like jam bands now 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z
Soluble fiber acts more like a sponge, sopping up cholesterol, thereby lowering the risk of heart disease. Can Fiber Cancel Out Calories? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z
He reached out and plucked a sopping wet cotton boll off of a brown, rotting stem and held it between his fingers, shaking his head. Farmers reeling after record rain in 2018 destroys crops 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z
The players and coaching staff embraced in the pool in a splashing cluster, then exchanged their sopping clothing for national champion T-shirts and hats. USC holds off Stanford to win its 10th water polo national championship 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z
I stood in front of him, my hair sopping wet. Homeless women are the sexual assault survivors no one talks about. Here’s my story. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z
Overshadowed so far by Senate races sopping up money and scrutiny across the country, Mr. Espy’s quest is about to get a lot more of both. A Black Senate Candidate Stumps in Mississippi, but His Party Holds Him Back 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z
Nevertheless, he spent six very rainy hours Saturday and eight sopping hours Sunday looking for birds at a lake near his city, outside the storm’s path. Many people flee hurricanes. Some birdwatchers flock to them. 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z
The measure to allow breaks in matches was implemented for three days last week as the players battled sopping humidity and scorching heat. Big names, young guns turn up the heat at U.S. Open 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z
“They are sopping up resources – dollars and board members – for organizations that will never become sustainable or scaled.” The 3 stages of giving: Deference, arrogance and inquiry 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z
Preakness Day is a rainy, sloppy, sopping, muddy mess. The Preakness moving out of Pimlico and Baltimore? It’s looking increasingly likely. 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z
Have warm corn bread or crusty bread on hand for sopping up what’s left in the bowl, and you’ll be set. This quick fish stew is light and easy — and only the flavor lingers 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z
Serve with some baguette for sopping up the extra lemony-winey-buttery sauce, or just tilt your plate until it pools in one side of the packet and use a spoon. The pretty, fun and surprisingly easy way to cook fish: en papillote 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z
There’s nothing worse than finding out the hard way that all the stuff you carefully packed for your day out ended up a sopping mess when that rain shower passed through. Exploring in the Northwest: Don’t leave without these 10 items | Provided By Northwest Motorsport 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z
As each hour passes he changes his sopping shirt for a new one. My pursuit of loneliness 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z
This morning, Goring was sopping up water that seeped through the walls of the house he shares with Bergeron and another priest, all of them members of the tiny Companions of the Cross order. Priest grasps for words as storm victims question their pain 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z
That hat, and a bust of the Virgin Mary, were what was left of Marcos’s room, unless you counted heaps of sopping children’s clothing, which were abundant throughout the house. The flood hit neighborhoods wealthy and poor. The toll in Texas is difficult to calculate. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z
In the Senate, Democrats vowed Monday to use parliamentary tools to hinder the rest of Republicans’ agenda, sopping up precious floor time, until GOP leaders schedule hearings on their emerging health bill. Obamacare repeal effort by GOP stonewalled by Democrats 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z
“If there was a secret sauce, they’d bottle it and sell it,” he said, sopping wet from a Ga­tor­ade bath.  St. John’s wins fourth straight WCAC baseball championship 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z
We knew that it was going to be a quick scene and we didn't want to have to go back and change clothes or be sopping, soaking wet, so that's what we did. With 'Love Jones,' black love took center stage: An oral history 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z
People were holding sopping red cotton pads to both sides of his face. The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z
Our sleeping bags were sopping & we were sitting in 2 inches of water. The Sketch Guy’s Most Valued Lessons Still Sting. How About Yours? 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z
Arguably the most thrilling MLS Cup final ever was the very first one, played on a sopping wet, muddy field in pelting rain at Foxboro Stadium in Massachusetts. Sounders are playing in their first, so here are the top 5 matches in MLS Cup history 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z
The beige carpet was slightly damp, not sopping wet. An anxious journey to check on a flooded home, then relief 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z
Joey Chestnut’s hand was sopping wet, like he had just dipped it into a pool. Joey Chestnut’s hot-dog-eating world-record-setting redemption tour 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z
We consider for a minute, see the truth of that simple statement, and get to the theater with only one left arm and one right arm completely sopping, and one very good umbrella richer. The Gift of an Umbrella 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z
I got caught outside in a Floridian downpour—the kind that leaves you sopping after 30 seconds. Swimming in Seersucker: The Smarter Trunks for Guys 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z
Cruz ended up getting clobbered in the Empire State, sopping away any lift he had gotten from Wisconsin. The Year of Trump 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z
“We had nothing else to do but go play, have fun, and at the end of the night go home sopping wet and cold for a nice hot chocolate,” he told me. Why Brooks Laich mattered to Washington sports 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z
There are no more places to perch sopping mittens. The real Snowzilla was the epic mess our kids made while home from school 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z
Bush's top lieutenants convened with donors in sopping wet Houston on Monday to calm their fears and retrench for the unforgiving haul ahead. Jeb Bush's Campaign Blueprint 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z
But Marshall’s eyes welled up as he looked at binders and boxes full of baseball cards, sopping wet. South Carolina floods leave a shared sense of memories lost 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z
They keep sopping up tax dollars and risk capital, thwarting big ideas and emergency relief, chewing up opportunists and champions. The Fight to Save Atlantic City 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z
But the injured rookie would be sopping up plenty of minutes and learning what did or didn't work at the NBA level on a Lakers team that surrendered a long time ago. Lakers, Julius Randle are left to consider what-ifs 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z
The reason for that seeming happy development is not that climate change isn’t real, but that the oceans, for now, are sopping up more heat than anticipated—see, for example, those migrating fish. Climate Change Deniers Have a Bad Day 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z
There's also a slab of garlic toast perfect for sopping up the leftover sauce. Happy Hour: Spretzels, mussels, half-off wines by the glass at Cooks County 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z
So they buried her deep in the sticky, sopping wet mud of the foreshore - between the high tide and low tide mark - and they put a heavy flat stone over her. How to bury a witch 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z
Taste the amazingly beefy, tender Crying Tiger, dipping it in the spicy sauce and sopping up anything left with a clump of sticky rice. Grand Central Market makes new friends, keeps the old 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z
The Seattle Fire Department began sopping up the fuel and the Coast Guard was called to help prevent the diesel from reaching the Duwamish Waterway. Punctured truck tank spills 80 gallons of diesel 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z
Are there better options for sustaining salmon harvests and sopping CO2 in a cash-strapped world? A Fresh Look at Iron, Plankton, Carbon, Salmon and Ocean Engineering 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z
One is a fixation with the New York City welfare mother, sopping up tax dollars at their expense. The GOP can help Blue America 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z
The pull-up bars and exercise bikes and the plastic medical drawer containing supplies for sopping up blood. Maryland wrestler Carl Buchholz fulfills his football dream 2013-12-25T19:09:39Z
As the mercury rises and humidity hovers, no candidate wants to get caught on the trail looking like a sopping Richard Nixon. Trailside: For Candidates on Dog Days, Sunscreen and an Extra Shirt (or 3) 2013-07-02T02:30:10Z
By sopping up CO2 they help to stabilize the climate. Forest Canopy Color Reveals CO2 Uptake 2012-12-28T17:45:00.400Z
Laundry hung from ropes, going from sopping wet to bone dry within minutes. Ceylanpinar Journal: Refugees Escape Syria to a Barren Plain of Sweat and Grit 2012-07-31T01:57:08Z
This colt was a revelation when cuffing Opinion Poll by four lengths in the Doncaster Cup and his recent return to action, when second in a muddling race on a sopping surface, counts as encouraging. Moonlight Cloud to deny Black Caviar in Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot 2012-06-16T16:36:37Z
The sopping R.N.R. officer was quick to enter into the joke against himself. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z
Our fellow guests were devouring it with evident enjoyment, zealously sopping up the oil with their rolls, and leaving their plates polished clean. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z
My roof-tree has been a jutting rock, my bed the sopping bracken, and so it will be still. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z
Late that day four sopping tourists To their quarters made their way, And the brushes of Futurists Scarce could paint their disarray. The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 2011-11-22T03:00:11.683Z
He became conscious of a wet cloth sopping his forehead and cheeks. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z
Here, driver, just look at this apron—it's sopping wet! Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z
Now and then I sat down to recover breath and to wring my sopping skirts, and to wait for the sound of the cart advancing, after the frequent silences that betokened bogs. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z
A door opened down-stairs, and there was a burst of laughter; and Mrs. Dilworth, in the cold twilight, went on sopping her eyes. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z
Then, as a waiter came with a sopping cloth to wipe down the table, we ceased to talk. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z
Some environmentalists slam it for sopping large amounts of federal money on an unproven technology that they say should be used more for renewable power. Using Corn Ethanol to Develop Carbon Capture and Storage 2011-09-12T17:15:09.813Z
There was no snow left; all frost was out of the ground along the Drowned Lands; and the earth was sopping wet. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z
A moment later, it seemed to start angrily from the ground, and she fell over backwards, whilst a mass of sopping canvas descended, stifling alike her screams and Bindle's protests that he was being killed. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z
Drenched, sopping, numbed and pierced by the cold wind that succeeded the storm, they resumed their ride half an hour later. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z
A fine mist was falling, everything outside the improvised tent was sopping and the other side of the river was shut from view. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z
This money is legitimate water that I am sopping up out of a reorganization, just like a Harriman or a Morgan. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z
Although the U.S. fixed the official gold price, a market existed in London, in which, in effect, companies sold metal to jewelers and dentists, with central banks sopping up the surplus. The Nixon Shock 2011-08-04T20:45:29Z
La Scarbitta is a colloquial term that refers to sopping up sauce with bread. | Mamaroneck: Prepare to Be Part of the Chef?s Family 2011-07-02T01:57:40Z
At the wash-stand she devoted some very valuable moments to sopping her face with cold water, and particularly her mouth and eyes. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z
The afternoon promised fine weather, but the grass in the park was sopping. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z
Scarcely a day passes without some of his new-made Northern friends dropping in on him and sopping up highballs and cocktails and this and that. J. Poindexter, Colored 2011-06-11T02:00:11.257Z
It was raining hard and the ground was sopping wet. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z
He was brought in, or more correctly carried in, by a sopping and tattered night-cabman. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z
In a few minutes he re-appeared bearing Dicky in his arms—a Dicky sopping wet and much subdued. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z
He dried his sopping fingers against the front of his jacket, tried again. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z
"And my poor knees only last week!" ruefully groaned Sybil, tenderly sopping some arnica dregs upon the bruised member. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z
It was so sopping wet, it just fell to pieces. Briarwood Girls 2011-01-11T03:00:30.337Z
Mopping her tears, she crumpled the sopping handkerchief in her little fist, sat perfectly upright in her seat, and stared so straight at me that I felt the blood hum in my ears. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z
Even as rain turns August from sweltering to sopping, the media heat, especially on cable news, still burns bright on the topic of Park51, the proposed Islamic cultural center near ground zero. Symbols, Signs and Public Spaces 2010-08-25T16:35:00Z
I realize that the head-to-toe shrouds have another purpose: sopping wet, they provide excellent protection against tear gas. Believers Under Siege in Pakistan 2010-06-18T09:25:00Z
And the briny liquor released by a heap of clean, fresh Prince Edward Island mussels deserved better bread for sopping. | South Salem: Keeping the Classics and Going Modern 2010-05-29T01:18:00Z
If the world doesn't start sopping up excess supplies, oil prices may fall into the $40-per-barrel range this year, Lynch said. Oil plunges 8 percent to lowest level in 10 months 2010-05-20T20:20:00Z
But it is pretty miserable to be in a grandstand full of sopping wet people who, despite being saturated, are still trying to escape further drenching. Claims Five: Reasons to love the Flat 2010-04-30T09:00:00Z
It does this by sopping up the genetic instructions needed to produce proteins that encourage brain signaling. Promise Seen in Drug for Retardation Syndrome 2010-04-30T02:14:00Z
"Tony is the man," says one man, whose shirt is sopping. For stars and plain Janes, he's 'the man' with the workout plan 2010-04-29T14:19:00Z
“My guess is that they are already sopping up some of the extra carbon,” he said. 2010-02-02T02:49:00Z
Sol had scant judgment and one suit of clothes available; the other, sopping wet from the wash, now swayed in the process of drying on an elder-bush in the door-yard. The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories
At the mental picture she choked with hysterical laughter, then cringed suddenly against the sopping bark. The Valiants of Virginia
So, indeed, I have," said the bishop, sopping up the wine which his elbow had overturned by a sudden jerk while the other was speaking, "so, indeed, I have. In the Day of Adversity
He yanked his injured hand away with a cry of pain and Mr. Cobb removed the sopping handkerchief. The Crimson Sweater
She put up her umbrella and sheltered herself as well as she could behind a tree, but her boots and skirt were already sopping with wet. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days
"Yes, Mounchere, yes, I understand,"—sopping his face and bald head with his handkerchief. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866
On the sopping lawn she glanced up at her mother’s window. The Valiants of Virginia
The foreman was just finishing his breakfast by sopping up the bacon-fat with a piece of bread, when there reached him the sound of a motor-car chunking its way along in the distance. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle
He must have been sopping up that spirit like a sponge, long before Gaynor suspected him. Shadows of Flames A Novel
Junius lifted a fist and dropped the sopping net on the bar. Where the Pavement Ends
Six months passed, and Hillary was still wallowing in glory, too busy sopping up plaudits to bother turning a hand. The Mind Digger
It has been so awfully wet of late, the woods are sopping, so I must take to the roads, and on the roads there is Euty—Mr. Custance. Leonore Stubbs
"Doom," said Dr. Smullyan, sopping up the last of his gravy with a piece of bread. Once a Greech
Her night gown was solid real lace, and the front of it was sopping wet where she'd cried, and the top of the sheet, too. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon
And there crawled out of the wash at his feet a full-grown male lion, gaunt and sopping, with crimson jaws distended.... Where the Pavement Ends
“O, Edom!” she wailed, in a voice tragic with tears, and reaching out to him both hands, in one of which she held a sopping pocket-handkerchief. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston
“Noreen, you go on sopping her face––I’m going to get something hot.” At the Crossroads
"He is so sopping wet I am afraid he will take cold," said Reliance. A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays
Meg's "nasty hat" was rakishly askew upon her red curls, for Fay had frequently grabbed at it in her rage, and the beautiful green linen gown was sopping wet. Jan and Her Job
"Rus" gets sopping wet and all grass-stained and dog-tired but he keeps me throwing that football in all sorts of zig-zag bounces across the lawn till it's so dark that the street lights come on. Interference and Other Football Stories
Weeds and willows were sopping wet, as was also our wash, and the breakfast fire was a comfortable companion. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
Meanwhile Barry Elder had been making quick trips about the room and now he threw down an armful of garments beside her and knelt at her feet, tugging at her sopping shoes. The Innocent Adventuress
She reached out, clutching his shoulders through the sopping blanket, heedless of the rain pouring down her own face, running under the collar of her doeskin shirt down her back and chest. Shaman
By now the water in the cabin was up to the bunks, and the bed-clothes were sopping. Tales of the Fish Patrol
Mrs. Peakslow went on again, sopping her eyes with the remnant of rags. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies
Everything about us was sopping at daybreak; but the sun rose clear and warm from a bed of eastern clouds, and the midnight gale had softened to a gentle breeze. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
He headed for it, throwing his sopping cloak and leather hat to the stone floor. The Saracen: The Holy War
In an instant her bonnet, her shawl, her dress, were all sopping. Shaman
Very little of the sweat that Jason wiped from his sopping face was caused by the heat in the room. Deathworld
He sat in his shirt-sleeves at the head of the table, vigorously sopping his tartine in his soup, and, mouth full, leaned forward, chewing and listening to the conversation around him. The Maids of Paradise
Fred felt the cloth, and, knowing that two minutes before it was sopping wet, now found it was only a little damp. Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life
He was endeavouring to staunch the flow of blood with his aunt's handkerchief, which was already sopping. Juggernaut
But the real trouble was when we found we were being swamped, the water flowing in and sopping us and our belongings, the latter being by far the most important. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
The occasional sopping up with the sponge and cloth will show the progress that is made. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
But everything was devoured,—the last crumb of cornbread did duty in sopping up the final drop of grease. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
He tossed away the end of his cigar, which made a little trail of sparks as it rolled along the sopping platform, and turned to look in through the window of the ticket office. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
All the clothing was sopping with water and beaten into the soil. Juggernaut
Ours was a poor concern, and as I had to wander about in the rain some time before I turned in, I was sopping wet, and of course passed the night so. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
Then the roof must want mending, for the rain comes into your room, sir—your clothes are all sopping wet! Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts
And the next moments were spent in sopping his face violently with the wet towel, which did no good, as it had been plentifully supplied with that treatment before. Five Little Peppers at School
David wouldn’t go to bed; he sat contentedly on his cot, sopping liniment on a bruised lip, while fellows kept coming in from other squads, to congratulate. At Plattsburg
Little Annie, carried away by his eloquence, was fairly panting to make dots and dashes fast  enough, and she was sopping her eyes with an unpresentable, end-of-the-day handkerchief. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
Even my martial cloak is sopping, though the lining is what, considering all things, I might call dry. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
She took off her sopping frock, and gave it to the woman to hang up. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)
The waves splashed over the spars as the breeze grew livelier and the piteous voyagers were sopping wet but the water was not chill and they slept through this discomfort. Blackbeard: Buccaneer
Way up and down, grandma, and the rain raining, and our feet all sopping, and pouring right into that wherry like a—a catara-duct. Dotty Dimple At Home
Duffy had two hours' sleep in a sopping wet roofless house, about three miles behind the firing line. Between the Lines
Robinson had some difficulty in opening the letter, which was sopping wet, and took a long time to read it, Davy, meanwhile, waiting patiently. Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
The judge's limpened hat brim dripped raindrops and his shoulders were sopping wet, but Jeff had yet to knowingly and wilfully contradict a prominent white citizen. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
He tossed away the end of his cigar, which made a little trail of sparks as it rolled along the sopping platform, and turned to look in through the window of the ticket-office. Days Off And Other Digressions
They wore wet clothes and sopping shoes to work, turned off the heat and threw windows open to the raw winter air. The Coffin Cure
They were strolling slowly through the sopping grass. No Man's Land
I felt wonderful as I sat in pain on the floor, sopping the blood out of my eyes. I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon
Sol had scant judgment and one suit of clothes available; the other, sopping wet from the wash, now swayed in the process of drying on an elder-bush in the dooryard. Wolf's Head 1911
Everything gets drenched and sopping, and it really appeared as if these white hazelnut flakes were possessed by an elfish desire to baffle your most careful efforts to keep them out. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
My husband came driving like mad with half a load of hay on the rack and grabbed me but as the stubble was short that sopping saved the stacks. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
But it was already chokeful of other troops, and more than half our brigade would have had to bivouac in the sopping fields. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
The constant heavy showers necessitated carrying mackintoshes to school, as if it were winter; the lawn was too wet and sopping for tennis, and most outdoor plans had to be abandoned. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
"I wish I could do something," said he, quite miserably; and I could smell the wet serge of his sopping coat, though I couldn't see him, for my hands were over my eyes. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
Count Victor laughed, and for an answer simply thrust forth a sopping foot to his examination. Doom Castle
“My fathers were once chiefs like yours,” continued Scood, amusing himself by sopping up the water and squeezing the sponge with his toes. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
It had been pouring heavily on shore for two days, though it was quite fine when we landed; so the ground where we were to encamp was mostly sopping. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
Why, you know summer at home, where the skies seem all like so much sopping wet flannel being squeezed; and not a sign o’ sunshine for six weeks. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
He came back to them, sopping wet to his knees. The Corner House Girls at School
Shann readied the first sopping mess in his sling, snapped his fire sparker at it, and had the ball awhirl for a toss almost in one continuous movement. Storm Over Warlock
I cried till I was simply a sopping sponge, but she was a perfect crab that day. The Jolliest School of All
But he was eventually hauled out, with my saddle and bags, of course, sopping wet. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
Her dress, though damp, was not sopping wet. The Stowaway Girl
He warmed some beans and fried himself a slice of bacon, sopping up the grease with a cold biscuit left over from the day before. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North
It had been a wretched day—a day of sopping rain and enervating mist. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel
Hazel discarded the wet coat, and, drawing a chair up to the fire, took off her sopping footgear and toasted her bare feet at the blaze. North of Fifty-Three
We could never climb down that sopping wet tree, and we would72 be very wicked to leave any part of the house down here unfastened. A Sweet Little Maid
They were all sopping wet with blood or mud or both. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
He turned his sopping shoes on end over the grate and dialed the thermostat higher. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
The ground was sopping, the trees black with the night's drenching. Autumn
Joses grinned as he closed his glasses, and rising to his feet brushed his sopping knees. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs
Nevertheless, even for these weather-hardened seamen, it cannot have been altogether pleasant penned up in sopping clothes in a dark forepeak with an unseen cutlass waving about in their midst and seizure pending. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855
Taking up a good sopping of paint on the brush, Captain Benson rapidly sketched, on the gray side of the battleship a letter "P" some six feet long. The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat
His legs were sopping wet from the long grass through which he strode to the edge of the gulch. The Sheriff's Son
"I really do think it is giving over now," he said, gazing at her sopping hat. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
Then a man shouted from the other side of the tent: "It's coming through like anything, my whole pillow's sopping wet." Combed Out
"I've lived on this mountain, tree and sapling, for--" But--Crash! came rain before he could finish; and in two seconds everything was sopping wet. A Book for Kids
Water had been brought; she woke to find herself upon the couch, the old woman woodenly sopping her head and hands. The Palace of Darkened Windows
"I'll catch my death," said the lady, who was crying; her trickling tears and her sopping handkerchief removed what remnants of her "cheeks" the sudden bath in the river had left. The Vehement Flame
It opens like a door; I believe they call it a 'casement' window, and in such a storm as this I have to keep sopping up the water that blows in. The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure
Her boots were sopping, her skirt wet to the waist, her face was scratched, and her hair was coming down, but she never complained. The Man with the Clubfoot
Look at your hair all white with mist and your sopping dress. Balloons
Most of us had no blankets, and we lay bundled up, shivering under our greatcoats on the sopping ground. With Rimington
With this last sentence my friend Leatherbacks gave a violent gesture that upset his cup and left the table-cloth sopping wet. Around The Tea-Table
He took the sopping handkerchief and flung it into a distant corner. Max
Miss Carlisle Heth sat cold and proud in the approaching lifeboat, picking at her sopping skirts. V. V.'s Eyes
She could feel a pulse in the sopping soil and her heart beat with it. Balloons
So shouted Herb cheerfully, as he tore a way with hand and foot through the stunted growth of alders and birch, which, beaten down by the winds, was now an almost impassable, sopping tangle. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods
A big white dog with woolly tufts like curl-papers about its face, sopping from the rain, came into the shed and stared with curiosity at Yegorushka. The Bishop and Other Stories
Collecting our kit from sopping crannies and corners, we packed it and paraded at six, and marched off to the quay, where the Aurania, our homeward transport, lay. In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
His brains fell in the plate from which we were sopping, and his head fell in my lap, deluging my face and clothes with his blood. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
They did so, and soon the four young hunters were standing in the sopping wet brushwood on the edge of the lake. Four Boy Hunters
But where is the "lack of breeding" in sopping up gravy with a piece of bread or "crumming," or eating soup with a spoon of one shape or another? Quit Your Worrying!
Venner refers to a mode of sopping them in wine as existing in his time. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
It was so warm when we camped that the snow melted as it fell, and everything got sopping wet. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
We were sopping gravy out with some cold corn bread, when Captain W. C. Flournoy, of the Martin Guards, hallooed out, "Look out, Sam; look! look!" "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
By now the water in the cabin was up to the bunks, and the bed-clothes were sopping Tales of the Fish Patrol
He squatted over his soup, sopping it up with his bread, and contemplated his comrades. The War in the Air
His cloak was still sopping, his eyes heavy with watching, and his lips black and cracked with thirst. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
We stripped Wake of his Red Cross uniform, now a collection of sopping rags, and got him between blankets with a huge earthenware bottle of hot water at his feet. Mr. Standfast
She drew in the skirts of her fur cloak to make room for me, and in my muddy boots and sopping clothes I took the seat she pointed out. Greenmantle
This was the beginning of my sopping my plate clean. The Life of Me; an autobiography
"O, Edom!" she wailed, in a voice tragic with tears, and reaching out to him both hands, in one of which she held a sopping pocket-handkerchief. Weir of Hermiston
She was sopping up a soapy pool with an all-encompassing gray scrub-rag. Buttered Side Down: Stories
A dry sail clinging to your legs and wrapping itself round your head is not pleasant, but, when the sail is sopping wet, it becomes quite vexing. Three Men in a Boat
The snow lay deep in these woods and I was sopping wet up to the knees. Greenmantle
When we were through licking and sopping, each of us would place our spoons on the table at our respective places, turn our plates upside down over them and take off for things more interesting. The Life of Me; an autobiography
Robin thought ruefully of his long hunt among the sopping rose-bushes. The Yellow Streak
In the morning they take a cup of coffee, generally without milk, sopping in it some light brioche. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
It was certain death for a man to attempt to stand upright upon the sopping deck, for the huge spar swung shoulder high. The Slave of the Lamp
In a moment I was sopping; but to be wet was of no consequence to me. The Flight of the Shadow
Vesta was on her knees, picking up the pieces, sopping the spilt water with a towel. Geoffrey Strong
Taking off his coat, he rolled it, sopping as it was, and stuffed it beneath the other's head. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea
I was safe, I thought, safe at last, and I was too glad at heart to think of my sopping clothes, and of the cold which already made me shiver like an aspen. Jim Davis
She held up my sopping cap, and laughed merrily. The Yeoman Adventurer
One day she woke from her sleep on the edge of the mangroves with her blanket sopping with blood which had flowed from her mouth and nose during sleep. Tropic Days
What Englishman would think of dancing the Lancers on sopping grass, quite gravely, with a white ribbon round his neck like a pet lamb, and his trousers wet through at the knees? The Visits of Elizabeth
"Why my gown is sopping wet,—oh! have I been at the bottom of the pond?" An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott
Others, in the shade of the wall, cackled when they saw a Son of the Red-Haired so beplastered and sopping. Dragon's blood
He was startled: like a sponge, sopping up the atmosphere, she darkened. Cytherea
They were muddy and sopping wet and steam was rising off them. This Freedom
A young widow, bathed in tears, was standing by, and in her grief sopping her whole handkerchief…. Letters of Anton Chekhov
Not the kind of rubbish you've been sopping up in your own place. Youth Challenges
He turned and ran on, dazzled; fell over some one who lay groaning; rose on hands and knees, groped in the dust, and suddenly fingered thin, rough cloth, warm and sopping. Dragon's blood
Her face and lips were dripping under the sopping, icy sponge of green moss with which he was bathing her and washing out her mouth and tongue. In Secret
It looks as if there once had been a road here," he shouted down to us, "but nothing less than fire would clear it now, and everything is sopping wet. The Eye of Zeitoon
And both of 'em was sopping wet through, and as miserable as two hens in a rain barrel. Cape Cod Stories
It was obvious that that one wretched, dirt-stained, sopping wet rag was all the clothing he had on. The Beetle
She took down her sopping handkerchief and lifted her warm, wet face. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
I landed on my feet and, except for sopping stockings, no harm was done. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
He creased out the letter at his side, reading it slowly as he chewed, sopping another die of bread in the gravy and raising it to his mouth. Ulysses
"It doesn't seem to blow so hard," observed Mr. Damon, as he was tenderly sopping his head with a handkerchief wet in the salt water. Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island
There she was in a house perfectly buried in trees, with the rain sopping down outside, and smoke blowing out of the fireplace, and the drawing-room as dark as pitch at two o'clock. Mother
"Yes, of course; who did you think I meant?" asked Polly, sopping up the water before it damaged her piano. An Old-Fashioned Girl
"Why, she got sopping wet in that brook yesterday, and here, just as I knew it would be, she's got a fever." Jewel
She stood still provokingly, with an affectation of wiping her arms and shoulders and sopping her wet dress with clusters of moss. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
The women are not allowed to taste of the meat, but forced to content themselves with sopping pieces of cake in the liquor. The Naturalist on the River Amazons
His collar and shirt were unbuttoned, and his neck and shoulders were sopping wet with water. Okewood of the Secret Service
As soon as he was secure, I spread out my sopping wet blankets in the first space I could find. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it
Before his master had well noted his absence he returned with a little sponge and a basin, and had begun sopping up the waters of the Jordan as though they had been a common slop. The Way of All Flesh
He took from the traveller his sopping overcoat and drew from his legs the pulpy riding-boots. The Path of the King
"It will be sopping wet out there after the shower," said Eliza. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories
She frequently found herself going off the road, more than once into patches of water, with the result that in a few minutes her feet were sopping. Okewood of the Secret Service
You get up-stairs and begin moving the furniture from where the rain's coming sopping in. The Vanished Messenger
Oh, Hetty, I was so ashamed of my wickedness in trying to drown myself; and, besides, my hair had all tumbled down and was sopping wet, and I was such a sight. Options
You are sopping wet yourself and you know you are subject to colds. Chronicles of Avonlea
His coat was torn and bloody; his trousers showed a ragged rent that was reddened and sopping. Rolf in the Woods
Desmond stared gloomily out at the sopping garden with an uneasy feeling that he had failed in his duty. Okewood of the Secret Service
Tramp, tramp, splash, tramp, wringing and sopping, but strong and hot, tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp. Rolf in the Woods
And I looked over the cab doors and saw him leave the ferry station in a motor-car; and the chauffeur gave him his bearskin to put on, for he was sopping wet. Options
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