1.   They came back sopping wet.

2.   A video repairman, sopping wet from the bicycle ride from Chelsea, swooped in to make the VCR safe for American-made movies.

3.   In the afternoon, sopping wet, boots caked with mud the consistency of hardened concrete, I head for the van parked in a field a mile away.

4.   One day, there was a water-main break, and we spent the afternoon in the basement, sopping wet, cleaning it out with the plumber.

5.   They are wrinkled, sopping wet, sticking to the bodies of men and women busy talking on cellular phones or waiting for departures or arrivals.