How to Use puddle in a Sentence

puddle

noun

• After the storm, the road was covered in deep puddles.
• She accidentally stepped in a puddle and got her shoes wet.
• Go ahead, stomp in the puddles, slide on the swing, play tag.
  — Allison Andrews, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• And in the fourth quarter, with the game on the line, the offense turned into a puddle.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• Laying in that puddle of blood for hours and hours and hours and hours.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 July 2022
• The final day of the Angels’ season began with rain, a tarp on the field and puddles in the dugout.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• And, of course, they’re crafted in durable rubber to keep puddles at bay.
  — Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• The voice on the other end said Marshall had overdosed and been found face down in a puddle.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• And while that helped — as did the rain letting up in the second half — big puddles remained.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Fitzpatrick was found lying in a puddle of blood by the front door, the report states.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 8 July 2022
• From there, she was placed in a cell, where she was found at one point in a puddle of her own urine, her lawyers said.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• And to answer your question, to me the biggest surprise was the red wave that turned out to be more of a puddle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Officers arrived to find her in a puddle of blood on the floor.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 July 2022
• One eight-year-old girl drew her large, happy house, then, next to it, added a puddle of blood.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• His tent sits next to a growing puddle of water that trails down from the railway.
  — Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• His freezer thawed in the blackout, leaving a puddle on his floor.
  — John Leicester, Hanna Arhirova, Sam Mednick, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2022
• Once the grounds crew got the tarp in place, very heavy rain, strong winds and lightning moved into the area, with the rain forming large puddles all along the track around the park.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2023
• In the garage, water drizzled from the ceiling forming a puddle.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
• The bacteria was found in three spots — two in soil and one in a puddle — on the property of the man who was sickened two years ago.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 27 July 2022
• Amidst record-breaking temperatures and drought, a pond near her house in the Austin suburb had shrunk to the size of a puddle.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
• Across the court, among the Oakland fans, Lisa Gohlke was dissolving into a puddle of tears.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• This summery style puts the likes of curtain bangs to shame, shifting your hair into a puddle of waves.
  — Amina Ayoud, Allure, 8 July 2022
• He was fascinated by how crows dragged bread too stale to eat over to puddles to soak.
  — Kate Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Others in the camp trudged through mud and around large puddles on Tuesday afternoon to a row of white canopies just outside the fence.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
• The rampant car break-ins leaving puddles of shattered glass.
  — Heather Knight Jim Wilson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Along the way, large puddles of dirty brown water sat stagnant, covered with green scum.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• At the southern edge of the small park, the water in the Atwood Channel usually amounts to little more than a puddle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• In 2013, the actor reportedly slipped in a puddle of water at his home and had to have his jaw wired shut.
  — Vulture, 18 Sep. 2022
• As his coffin was driven to the church, local residents knelt in the puddles that pooled along the roadside.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Many are still haunted by images of corpses strewn on the floor, puddles of blood, and police boots tainted red.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024