sopping

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Her boots were sopping, her skirt wet to the waist, her face was scratched, and her hair was coming down, but she never complained.

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  • "Hello, Laurey," Gage said Chapter 19 H e was still shivering, but he shook his head at her offer of anything more than hot coffee, a towel for his sopping hair and the chance to take off his wet jacket and shoes. —  Chapter1
  • Its weight was not all that comforting—considering the person I was after must have my gun When I'd caught my breath, I pushed the flashlight into the deep pocket of my sopping-wet sweater and slid down the other side of the levee. —  Muller, Marcia - [McCone 08] Eye of the Storm UC FR.htm
  • The steamy mirror confirmed her worst fears: her robe was old and ratty, and the towel/turban around her sopping-wet hair was little better. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Feb. 2002
  • They would render the planets into light-sopping materials — a tedious task — in preparation for harnessing the star's total flux.
  • She looked around, walked back, it was John Brown, his helmet knocked awry, long dents—swordstrokes—in his breastplate, his left hand a blob of bandages where spots showed sopping-red. —  Map.html
 

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sopping:   sop ·  sops
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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/ˈsɑpɪŋ/
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