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How to use waterlogged in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Waterlogged means soaked with water. Example: “The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch.”

Examples of waterlogged by meaning

adjectiveSoaked with water.

  • The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar scenes of life in New York into otherworldly and waterlogged chaos on Wednesday night.2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times, →ISSN...
  • On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time

More sentences with waterlogged

  • The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch.From the entry rain off
  • In an attempt to alleviate the problem, wooden planking, known as duckboards, was placed at the bottom of trenches and across other areas of muddy or waterlogged ground.From the entry duckboard
  • The wind gusted through, shivering me, so that my waterlogged brogans were like ice against my feet.2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 65. From the entry brogan
  • With the very long winter, permafrozen soil, and low evaporation, the soil is waterlogged.1980, Robert Auty, Companion to Russian Studies: An Introduction to Russian History, page 11. From the entry permafrozen
  • One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky.1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness: The River of Doubt. From the entry cranky
  • “I hope the tomatoes don't get waterlogged.”2015, Jennifer Beckstrand, Huckleberry Spring, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry make down
  • Okra does not do well in tight, waterlogged soils, but will tolerate a soil pH range of from 6.0 to 7.5.1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, page 610. From the entry okra
  • LIKE A DUCK—Soaked to the point of not caring, this waterlogged pedestrian squishes his way across a downtown street.1952 July 9, “5.60 Inches of Rain Set New Record […]”, in The Sun, final edition, volume 231, number 45, Baltimore, Md.: A. S. Abell…. From the entry squish
  • Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.2012, David Quammen, Spillover, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry bai
  • The reason became abundantly clear when I stood up, clad only in two three-foot-long shoulder straps, with two stone of waterlogged cossie round my ankles.2009, Brenda Sensicle-Creese, Sensicle, But Not Always, page 3. From the entry cossie
  • Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg.1988, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, page 329. From the entry lagg

Meaning of waterlogged

  1. adjective Soaked with water.
  2. adjective In danger of sinking because of excess water onboard.

Full definition of waterlogged

Questions about waterlogged in a sentence

How do you use waterlogged in a sentence?
Waterlogged is used as an adjective. For example: “The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch.”
What is a short sentence with waterlogged?
““I hope the tomatoes don't get waterlogged.””
What does waterlogged mean?
Waterlogged means soaked with water.

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