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How to use soak in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Soak means to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. Example: “I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.”

Examples of soak by meaning

verbTo be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

  • I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.

verbTo immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.

  • Soak the beans overnight before cooking.

verbTo penetrate or permeate by saturation.

  • The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.

verbTo allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).

  • A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
  • I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university.
  • A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings

verbTo overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.

  • Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm, or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions.2015, P. J. O'Rourke, Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
  • And I should say, it soaked me, it soaked the upper middle class in blue states.2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verbTo hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.

  • We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.

verb(slang, boxing) To hit or strike.

  • Sipperley pretty shirty when he came to and found that you had been soaking him with putters?1926, [P.G. Wodehouse], The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy

nounAn immersion in water etc.

  • After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.
  • Springtime overnighters snuggling down in a luxury treehouse after a soak in the open-air, wood-fired Swedish Hikki bathtub may hear nightingales serenading their consorts2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian

More sentences with soak

  • He walked into the house, soaking wet, and trailed water all over the place.From the entry trail
  • He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.From the entry mop
  • Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.From the entry through
  • They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.From the entry downpour
  • Soaking camomile leaves in hot water for five minutes produces a very relaxing herb tea.From the entry herb tea
  • The scalpels were soaked in disinfectant before the operation so disease wouldn't be spread.From the entry disinfectant
  • A bath is a lovely relaxing event, until the realization that you're soaking in your own crud.From the entry realization
  • His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.From the entry slosh
  • I'm soaking wet. I need to get into some dry clothes.From the entry get into
  • The unstained hardwood floor was pale, but the finish soaked in and made the room seem dark.From the entry unstained
  • The rain came down drenchingly and we were soaked to the skin in mere seconds.From the entry drenchingly
  • After walking home in the rain, she was soaked to the bone.From the entry to the bone
  • There was a torrential downpour and we were all soaked.From the entry torrential
  • Ladyfingers soaked in liqueur are the base of tiramisu, but I suppose you could just cut up a sponge cake instead.From the entry ladyfinger
  • I had a long, leisurely soak in the bathtub.From the entry bathtub
  • The tissue soaked up all of the spilled milk.From the entry soak up
  • I'm soaking wet because it rained down on me.From the entry rain down
  • Gaps between paving slabs allow rainwater to soak away.From the entry soak away
  • 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
  • I noticed inflammation at the base of my left big toenail and started daily foot soaking.2024 November 9, Jacqueline LeKachman, “How I live with ingrown toenails: First, by avoiding pedicures”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry big toenail
  • He wraps a dry, red-coloured gamchha around his body and pulls off his soaking langot.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 158. From the entry langoti
  • Dry pailing is much less smelly than wet pailing (soaking them in water or a disinfectant solution).2023 October 30, “Everything You Need to Know About Dry Pailing Reusable Nappies”, in Bambino Mio. From the entry dry pailing
  • They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in.2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times. From the entry squirt
  • Soak the pieces in a bowl of water for 5 minutes to draw out the extra starch.2022, Emily J. Bushman, “Daikagu Imo”, in Bake Anime: 75 Sweet Recipes Spotted In—and Inspired by—Your Favorite Anime (A Cookbook), New…. From the entry satsumaimo
  • Still, the amount of damage he was soaking up seemed a bit overtuned.2021 February 27, Luke Winkie, “How Blizzard Transforms Its Fans Into Employees”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast…. From the entry overtuned
  • The vessel for this alcohol enema can be a funnel or soaked tampon.2021 September 27, Jessica Testa, “Everything You Need To Know About Butt-Chugging”, in BuzzFeed. From the entry butt chugger
  • The freaked out tripster was well wrapped up in two soaking wet sheets.2017, Gregory Lane, Bloodship: Victor Four. From the entry tripster
  • You eat the whole artichoke and soak up the olive-oily gravy with your chunks of bread.2016, Patsy Garlan, The Thing Is, San Rafael, Calif.: Summerland Publishing, →ISBN, page 302. From the entry olive-oily

Meaning of soak

  1. verb To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
  2. verb To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
  3. verb To penetrate or permeate by saturation.

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Questions about soak in a sentence

How do you use soak in a sentence?
Soak is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.”
What is a short sentence with soak?
“Soak the beans overnight before cooking.”
What does soak mean?
Soak means to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soak (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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