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How to use puddle in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Puddle means a small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road. Example: “I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.”

Examples of puddle by meaning

nounThe ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.

  • I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it.1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings, page 88
  • As the blade exits the water the puddle is very tight and dark.2007, Rowing News, volume 14, number 5, page 36

verbTo make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

  • His bullet packed bandolier still draped over one shoulder served to emphasize the nakedness of the torso, as did the boots and the pants that were puddled about his ankles.1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32

More sentences with puddle

  • I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.From the entry splash
  • My car started acting up after I drove through that huge puddle.From the entry act up
  • He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.From the entry head to toe
  • The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.From the entry coalesce
  • An hour of drying out caked up the blood puddle.From the entry cake up
  • The droplets coalesced into a puddle.From the entry coalesce
  • The flight across country was not bad, but the ride in the puddle jumper between Boston and Connecticut was a little rough.From the entry puddle jumper
  • I was having a really bad day at work, but the icing on the cake was getting soaked by a car passing through a puddle.From the entry icing on the cake
  • You can puddle jump your way through your walk in the rain.2013, Grace Price, PreK-1 Daily Fitness Activities, →ISBN. From the entry puddle jump
  • We then "puddle jumped" to the Drake Bay airstrip, on the northern Pacific side of the peninsula.2012, Wisconsin Natural Resources - Volumes 36-37, page 12. From the entry puddle jump
  • This to no avail, given that Ivan has been reduced to a quivering puddle of orange dumbdom.2011, Douglas Dunn/Cujo, The Cujo Cat Chronicles, page 28. From the entry dumbdom
  • The rainwater was accumulating in deep manurey puddles around the barn and stables.2005, J. P. S. Brown, Ladino, page 144. From the entry manurey
  • Whether impasse takes over the puddle or speeches the mirrorful side-step.2005, Sarah Gridley, Weather Eye Open, Berkeley, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry mirrorful
  • “Argghh, a booter,” Sally groaned when she sloshed across a puddle too wide to jump.1997, Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson, Gold Rush: North to Alaska and the Klondike, page 106. From the entry booter
  • She was upside down, her hair fanned out and trailing in a puddle about a foot deep.1989, Lieberman, Herbert H, Shadow dancers : a novel, Little, Brown, page 4. From the entry gumwrapper
  • Inside the atmosphere was rank and caliginous: fumes rose from puddles, groans sifted through the shadows.1981, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “The Niger”, in Water Music, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, →ISBN; republished London: Granta Books…. From the entry caliginous
  • Burdocks, thistles, dwarf oaks, cottonweed, chalky holes and whitish puddles everywhere.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 22–23. From the entry pauperize
  • Falling conductors may come in contact with grounded objects or puddles of water.1952, Safety Maintenance. From the entry conductor
  • The plutocratic-looking balloon with the puddle of unpriceable brandy was mine.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 92. From the entry unpriceable
  • Last night, she snapped me a picture of you sitting in a muddy puddle in nothing but your diaper.2024, Jami Rogers, “Chapter Two: Natalie”, in Always Been Write: A Small Town, Best Friends to Lovers Romance (Lust or Bust; 6). From the entry snap
  • My baby puddle hound has a fresh cut!2020 January 22, u/macmaam, r/poodles (Reddit post), archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023. From the entry puddle-hound
  • They don't soak water well and why in this world would you want to spoil your expensive leather footwear in puddles?2017 September 1, Mansi Mahendru, “How to Dress Up during Monsoon: Six Tips”, in Divesh Nath, editor, Woman’s Era, volume 44, number 1050…. From the entry floater
  • A plate of scrambled eggs and a bowl of müsli stood in the puddle of spilled orange juice.2016, Thomas Strandberg, chapter 12, in The Lights of Hell, Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry müsli
  • Puddles grew at the feet of a man in a crash helmet and a long dark riding coat.2014 November 18, John Swinfield, Knock Down Ginger, eBook Partnership, →ISBN. From the entry teem
  • This strange organism is created when millions of single-celled animals come together to form a slimy puddle—not good for a blennophobe.2011, Joel Levy, Phobiapedia: All the Things We Fear the Most!, page 61. From the entry blennophobe
  • We sloshed through puddles left behind by the morning rain and the water used to fight the fires.2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148. From the entry ground zero
  • He'd have to look up, have to look— A stone plapped into a greasy puddle not two feet away.2010, Joanne Harris, Blackberry Wine. From the entry plap
  • Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.2008, Vanity Fair, number 578. From the entry emo
  • Along the trails, degus leave mini-urine puddles marking the trail.2008, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Secret of the Singing Mice... and More!, page 37. From the entry degu
  • A puddle of bright orange - the seepings from the pickling liquid - crept across the factory floor towards the drain.2008, Paul Richardson, A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of Spain, page 127. From the entry seeping
  • Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378. From the entry coulis
  • He casually flipped the page and found a slice of angel’s food cake sitting in a puddle of raspberry sauce.1998, Anthony Bruno, Double Espresso, Forge, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry angel's food cake
  • She grabbed at her maidenhair as the garment eluded her frantic grasp and formed a puddle of cloth at her feet.1989, Robert Solotaroff, Bernard Malamud: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 116. From the entry maidenhair
  • First you show us a herd of tame elephants, then you get all spooky about a puddle of dirty water.1978, Hugh Gantzer, Flashpoint!, Vikas, →ISBN, page 69, →ISBN. From the entry whom're
  • The beakers of mead spilled in huge puddles.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 30. From the entry beaker
  • They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 11. From the entry displayed
  • The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.1944, Emily Carr, “Brooding and Homing”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry guinea

Meaning of puddle

  1. noun A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
  2. noun Stagnant or polluted water.
  3. noun A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.

Full definition of puddle

Questions about puddle in a sentence

How do you use puddle in a sentence?
Puddle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.”
What is a short sentence with puddle?
“The droplets coalesced into a puddle.”
What does puddle mean?
Puddle means a small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.

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