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Soaked in sentence

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Years later, as part of UBS Optimus Foundation-funded research into household-level insect-control methods, my team found that a novel technology – durable wall linings soaked with the insecticide deltamethrin – was effective at killing sandflies for up to a year after application.
The history of the United States, like that of all countries, is soaked in blood.
Of course, all of that CO2 was soaked up from the atmosphere the year before; but, had we just left the barley where it was, it, too, would have soaked up quite a bit, lowering the reduction relative to coal to 20 tons.
An ungracious host, Putin stood under an umbrella during the final post-match ceremony, while the presidents of Croatia and France got soaked by the pouring rain.
Similarly, the baseless rumor that all of Japan is soaked in radiation has caused tourism from abroad to plummet.
When the sea rose as usual and soaked Canute, he told his courtiers: “Now let all men know how empty is the power of kings.”
Today, the world is fretting over Venice’s soaked and damaged urbs, which is, to be sure, extremely vulnerable even to minor sea-level rises, like those brought about by climate change.
But even while they were meeting, their “common ground” – the soil of Afghanistan – was being soaked in blood from relentless attacks by the Taliban, who had rejected a ceasefire for Eid al-Fitr, the traditional Muslim holiday at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
'Please follow my advice,' said the old Princess, 'cover the jam with paper soaked in rum, and then it will not get mouldy, even without ice.'
In a quarter of an hour he was soaked, and at the same time covered with sweat, smoking as with the hot steam of a laundry.
They were already black with coal, soaked in a fine dust diluted with sweat which ran down in streams and pools.
All four were naked, mixed up with the coal, soaked with black mud up to the cap.
He hated brandy with the hatred of the last child of a race of drunkards, who suffered in his flesh from all those ancestors, soaked and driven mad by alcohol to such a point that the least drop had become poison to him.
She shivered a little from the coldness of her garments soaked in sweat, with a gentle resigned air, ready to submit to things and men.
Men were constantly moving around the shaft, pulling the signal cords, pressing on the arms of levers, in the midst of this spray in which their garments were soaked.
The engine alone shone at the end with its copper; the well-greased steel cables moved like ribbons soaked in ink, and the pulleys above, the enormous scaffold which supported them, the cages, the trams, all this prodigality of metal made the hall look sombre with their hard grey tones of old iron.
On the Marchiennes side the road unrolled its two leagues of pavement, which stretched straight as a ribbon soaked in cart grease between the reddish fields.
They could sup later on; as yet nobody was hungry, with their stomachs soaked in coffee and thickened with beer.
But the constant threat was of landslips; for, besides the insufficiency of the timbering, always patched up too quickly, the soil, soaked with water, would not hold.
They dug on, soaked in sweat, their muscles tense to breaking.
Chapter 2AT Jean-Bart, Catherine had already been at work for an hour, pushing trains as far as the relays; and she was soaked in such a bath of perspiration that she stopped a moment to wipe her face.
All were soaked in oil, and Mouquette dried her hands on her skirt, laughing to find herself so dirty.
He had sought for the key, the piece which held the others; he attacked it furiously, making holes in it, sawing it, thinning it so that it lost its resistance; while through the holes and the cracks the water which escaped in small jets blinded him and soaked him in icy rain.
A falling shower had soaked the crowd, but they had not withdrawn a step.
Many of them, sick with fright after the accident, shaken by nervous tremors, soaked in cold sweats, and the prey of continual nightmares, got up in spite of everything, and were as eager as any in their desire to fight against the earth, as though they had a revenge to take on it.
The ashes were soaked into a coaly mud, all the coal of the mine which he drew from his chest.
They ascended the chimney passage, soaked to the shoulders.
The bench, not properly smoothed, was soaked in moisture, and so slippery that they had to hold themselves on vigorously to avoid slipping off.
Instinctively I worried that I might get soaked!
The duel was over in an instant: Julien received a bullet in his arm; they bound it up for him with handkerchiefs; these were soaked in brandy, and the Chevalier de Beauvoisis asked Julien most politely to allow him to take him home, in the carriage that had brought them.
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