PUDDLE


Meaning of PUDDLE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

splash

Then he switched on the torch and splashed through the puddle in the concrete to the shed.

Without exchanging a word we lengthened our strides, splashing through puddles , and made for the door.

Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them.

Their feet were splashing now through deep puddles , and still the rain came down.

She ran up the drive, head down, splashing through the puddles , fumbling in her pocket for her keys.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a mud puddle

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

George Cummings pulled out the stretcher with an oblong puddle of flesh and hair and rib.

He dashed across the puddles in the courtyard, lithe and athletic.

He shook his head to drive away some bottleneck flies straying from the vile puddle in front of the horse-faced young man.

Sometimes the blood oozed into great black puddles over which huge swarms of flies hovered.

Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream.

The ground is frozen, thin ice covers the puddles between the furrows of the empty gray field.

The problem with such puddles, Rubberneck would suffer violent bellyaches and explosive diarrhoea.

Would you jump into puddles with me?

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