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How to use soggy in a sentence

33 example sentences · adjective

Soggy means soaked with moisture or other liquid. Example: “Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.”

Examples of soggy by meaning

adjectiveUninteresting, dull.

  • a soggy film

More sentences with soggy

  • Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.From the entry blind
  • The undertoasted bread had a soggy texture.From the entry undertoasted
  • This soggy match will not light.From the entry light
  • A classic French dessert, baba au rhum is a syrup-soaked, soggy, boozy delight.2021 April 7, David Tanis, “Baba au Rhum”, in New York Times Cooking, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry baba au rhum
  • A car that feels limp and soggy usually has a suspension defect that requires attention.2013, Robert Foskett, Alfa Romeo 916 GTV and Spider: The Complete Story. From the entry rollbar
  • As a result, the bottom crust becomes a pale, soggy mess.2009, editors of Cook’s Illustrated, “Deep-Dish Apple Pie”, in More Best Recipes: A Best Recipe Classic, Brookline, Mass.: America’s Test…. From the entry applesaucey
  • The rain is coming down harder, making the hot-dog buns soggy.1991, Aethlon, page 130. From the entry hot-dog bun
  • This will prevent it from going soggy when the contents are added.1982, Lizzie Evans, 1000 Handy Household Hints, page 141. From the entry bake something blind
  • Rum baba, an oozy, syrupy‐sweet standard that has always seemed soggy and insipid to me, still does.1977 December 14, Mimi Sheraton, “For New Bakeries, the Sweet Smell of Success”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry rum baba
  • Pampcritters grow to big sizes when soggy!2025 December 22, @pampsquidly.bsky.social, Bluesky. From the entry pampcritter
  • It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry trifle
  • His trailer smelt horrible, it had the stench of soggy cheap plywood that had been soaked in a soupful of turds.2018, Ed Wagemann, edited by Anne Moss, Gentrification: The Early Works of Ed Wagemann, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry soupful
  • You know: the ones who walk around trailing sad little bags containing soggy towels and spare shoes and shampoo.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times. From the entry rank and file
  • Learn about the Victorians' ickiest dishes, discover Queen Victoria's favourite lunch and bake a proper Victorian sponge (without a soggy bottom).2015 July 19, Sarah Baxter, “Summer holiday events: 28 fantastic days out to keep the kids entertained”, in The Independent, London…. From the entry Victorian sponge
  • The gun dropped limply from his hand onto the soggy grass, where it hissed as steam rose from the hot muzzle.2011 December 7, Paul Wordsworth, The Logic Bomb, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN. From the entry sile
  • It was spent supervising sandcastles and shell collections, soggy towels and gritty kids, with hardly a minute to ourselves for sunbaking.2006, Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain, ReadHowYouWant, published 2010, page 249. From the entry sunbake
  • A little beer mixed with soggy tobacco or pot oozes out of one can near Ken's bare, hairy feet.1994, Dennis Cooper, Try, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry octopusish
  • The ground gooshed in places, soggy from the winter rains.1990, Sandra Dengler, East of Outback (Australian Destiny Book #4), Baker Books, →ISBN. From the entry goosh
  • As you can see, she's getting soggy.1985 June, Procter & Gamble, “The inside story is leaking out”, in Vivian Cadden, editor, Working Mother (advertisement), The McCall…. From the entry shaped diaper
  • Matt, don’t forget your fruitloops and B.K.’s soggy cookies.1981, Elizabeth Goldrick, “Seniors”, in Goldenrod, Quincy, Mass.: Quincy High School, →OCLC, page 96. From the entry fruitloops
  • Gurney's dig at our pie referred to the soggy undercrust so many of our American cooks persist in making.1922, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary, page 82. From the entry undercrust
  • A luxury when “porching.” Fastidious travellers throw aside the soggy, buckwheaty blankets of Pullmans and use their Steamer Rugs instead.1910 February 9, “You Need Not Take an Ocean Voyage in Order to Utilize These Steamer Rugs”, in The Sun, volume LXXVII, number 162, New…. From the entry buckwheaty
  • It's prepared from lots of lousy cooking oil, preserved vegetables, soggy low-quality rice and omelette with more air and oil than egg inside.2020, Chan Joon Yee, “What Do I Eat?”, in Not Quite over the Hill: Swinging My Way to 60 and beyond, [S.l.]: Dewdrop Books. From the entry Singaporean
  • The trick is to not overfold the ingredients; doing so causes the egg whites to deflate, resulting in a flat or soggy soufflé.2012, Culture Magazine, Cheese For Dummies, page 305. From the entry overfold
  • Twisting her think, soggy hair behind her head, she stuffed two chop-sticky spikes through the knot to keep it off her neck.2012, Lizbeth Selvig, The Rancher and the Rock Star, Boston: Lee and Shepard, page 384. From the entry chopsticky
  • That included Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen, Governor General Michaélle Jean, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter and a bevy of soggy dignitaries.2010 June 29, Christopher Hume, “On her 22nd visit to Canada, Her Majesty stops the rain”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 13 Jun 2017. From the entry anybody who is anybody
  • Bloomberg’s sales pitch was not confined to the new governor; he also took a hard-sell approach on a soggy multiborough tour to promote the plan.2008 March 20, Diane Cardwell, “Governor Is Another Obstacle for the Mayor’s Congestion Pricing Plan”, in New York Times. From the entry multiborough
  • In liverworts like Marchantia, which lives in most soggy places worldwide, the gametophyte is the dominant phase – the thing you would think of as the plant.2018 May 25, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian. From the entry gametophyte
  • Those fools are all probably sitting outside the pork store, recalling the incident about losing a thousand bucks with the fake Gajas, and chewing on their soggy stogies.2010 December 14, Robert Hernandez, Slurp:Killer Wine, page 129. From the entry buck
  • The shells turn soggy, and the peanuts take on a fresh, legumey flavor and texture more reminiscent of, say, a salty kidney bean than a traditional roasted goober.2002, Smithsonian, page 95. From the entry legumey
  • The cheesecake was flaky rather than soggy, the mousse (of which I had a bite) extremely rich and the strawberry pie about the whip-creamiest I’ve ever seen.1978 March 30, Stanley Gilliam, “Eating Out: You can go home for brunch”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 240, number 39,884, Sacramento…. From the entry whip-creamy
  • In the late afternoon when the ground is squishingly soft and soggy and the grass can be peeled loose from the earth, along comes Mother's aunt, puffing down the road.1995, Katherine Hanson, An everyday story: Norwegian women's fiction. From the entry squishingly

Meaning of soggy

  1. adjective Soaked with moisture or other liquid.
  2. adjective Uninteresting, dull.

Full definition of soggy

Questions about soggy in a sentence

How do you use soggy in a sentence?
Soggy is used as an adjective. For example: “Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.”
What is a short sentence with soggy?
“a soggy film”
What does soggy mean?
Soggy means soaked with moisture or other liquid.

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