Soak

//soʊk//

"Soak" in a Sentence (28 examples)

You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water.

Japanese love to soak in a hot tub before bed.

When investigating the pH (acidic, neutral, alkaline) of a liquid, don't soak the litmus paper completely in the liquid but just put the end of the paper in it.

Tom's muscles were tired and he wanted to get home and soak in a hot bath for a while.

Japanese like to soak in hot water before going to sleep.

Soak this sponge in water.

Tom's father's a bit of a soak.

Soak walnuts in water to reduce the bitterness.

Soak them overnight.

The loss of eelgrass also means these underwater meadows soak up less planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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

Their land shall be soaked with blood.

Soak the beans overnight before cooking.

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

The rivulet beneath […]soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.

A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.

I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university.

The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.

It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.

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.

I think you’re totally right that there is a big constituency, especially now that the party has been transformed, of Republican- and populist-leaning Republican voters who would be fine with some soaking the rich in the context of a bigger budget deal. […] Just maintaining the changes to the state and local tax deduction that was, I think, one of the genuinely populist victories of the first Trump term. And I should say, it soaked me, it soaked the upper middle class in blue states.

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

That they will want a certaine sucking and soaking

Wasn't Mr. Sipperley pretty shirty when he came to and found that you had been soaking him with putters?

After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.

wildlife tourism has turned Knepp into a successful business that employs more people than it did when it was a farm. 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 consorts

I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.

Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.

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