How to Use soaked through in a Sentence

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• Sweat down his face and soaked through his shirt and tie.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2021
• Make sure to use enough so that the hair is damp but not entirely soaked through.
  — Heather Roy, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2021
• The city had been hit by two smaller flash floods in the weeks prior, and the soil was already soaked through.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• At the time, the girl said the wounds had been caused by cleaning chemicals that soaked through her gloves and clothes.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• The dense forest cover kept the air cool but humid, and I was soaked through with sweat.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
• And he was hit with so much chemical spray that the liquid soaked through to his skin.
  — Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen, CNN, 26 July 2021
• By mid-morning my hat had soaked through, and water began to drip down from the brim.
  — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2021
• For more than a decade, Smith’s distinctive voice has soaked through the collective consciousness like the syrup in a rum cake.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023
• Leave for 15 minutes, turning often, until the bread is soaked through. 5.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• In the warehouse, boxes of Nike shoes — valued at hundreds of dollars each — were soaked through with water.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Their shirts are already completely soaked through — not just with sweat, but with the morning dew that coats the green and yellow leaves of the tobacco plants.
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• Perspiration beaded on his face and soaked through his white shirt on a warm, humid day.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
• The more water that soaked through the mattress protector and into the absorbent blotting paper below, the less waterproof the protector proved to be.
  — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2022
• Heavy rain often means that residents’ belongings are soaked through and need to be cleaned, especially if the residents’ tents have holes.
  — Kalley Huang, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2021
• Scientists think that these minerals formed underground, suggesting that water soaked through the surface and stayed there long enough to form the minerals.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2019
• They’d get soaked through in high alpine snow storms and river crossings, and salt from winter sidewalks had totally disappeared the angular heat embossing details on the sides.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Aug. 2022
• Waterproof fabric keeps your items safe from inclement weather if your suitcase somehow becomes soaked through, and they’re also easily wiped down after use to keep your storage units clean and ready for your next trip.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Players explode into nonexistence when soaked through in rival colors and fly back into the fight after a few seconds on the sidelines spent checking the loadout of the person responsible for their defeat.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024