all soft
Frequency: 5.020.6 per million words
Indicates that something has become completely soft, often unexpectedly or undesirably.
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Examples (10)
- These tomatoes have gone all soft.
- The butter went all soft sitting in the sun.
- My old sneakers have become all soft and worn out.
- The pears in the bag were all soft and bruised.
- I left the ice cream out too long and now it's all soft.
- The ground became all soft after the heavy rain.
- His heart went all soft when he saw the tiny puppy.
- The bread has gone all soft because of the high humidity.
- The tires on my bike feel all soft; I need to pump them up.
- After boiling for too long, the vegetables turned all soft and mushy.