PUDDLE in a Sentence

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Connie especially felt a delight in putting the soft roots of young plants into a soft black puddle, and cradling them down.

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 Meanings and Examples of PUDDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
puddle
 n.  something resembling a pool of liquid; a small body of standing water
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  He felt much as does a man who, shod with well-polished boots, has just stepped into a dirty, stinking puddle.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  Everywhere the same slovenliness, the same disorder, was displaying itself unadorned: the only difference being that a fresh puddle had formed in the middle of the village street.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  A plump, dark-blue pigeon flew into the road, and hurriedly went to drink in a puddle near the well.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  The water was out, over miles and miles of the flat country adjacent to Yarmouth; and every sheet and puddle lashed its banks, and had its stress of little breakers setting heavily towards us.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
6  That was the breadth of a puddle on the garden walk which he had evidently walked across.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
7  Connie especially felt a delight in putting the soft roots of young plants into a soft black puddle, and cradling them down.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
9  This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL
10  Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  But we could not follow, for we were losing the puddle of light behind us.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
12  She did not even try to avoid puddles but stepped dully into them, dragging her heavy skirts after her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  The mud roads of a few days ago are powdery dust and the puddles beside them have hardened into lozenges of black sleek earth like cracked patent leather.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  Monstrous tattered clouds sprawled round a forlorn moon; puddles and rocks glistened with inner light.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  A steam rose from the horse as it splashed up the puddles.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
Example Sentence:
1  Stop at a rain puddle and see how far you can make the water splatter away.
2  A young municipal utility worker has become a viral sensation after an image of him submerged in a puddle from a busted pipeline was shared around the country.
3  There was a puddle of water on the kitchen floor.
4  She ran up the drive, splashing through the puddles.