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Example sentences for: puddles

How can you use “puddles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Doris Kearns Goodwin ( Meet the Press ) further puddles the issue, insisting the "whole system has become corrupted."
People I respect were reduced to puddles by Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles , although I found it a collection of stereotypes.