Meanings of soaked soil in English

So they all made for it, their feet slipping or sinking into the soaked soil.

The dead rose from the ground of their fathers and from the death- soaked soil of ancient battles.

It is a martyr's faith in the hands of the powerful, its cross planted in the blood- soaked soil of manifest destiny.

In Tarne Crossing were travelers and traders and people who lived on the border but didn't have roots in its blood- soaked soil.

Tar sands are controversial because the process of converting bitumen- soaked soil into crude uses a lot more energy and water than normal oil production.