returning home from the trip we peeled off our sodden coats dropped all of our suitcases on the floor and headed for the kitchen in the back which part of the sentence uses description to hold the readers interest

we peeled off our sodden coats

Explanation:

The part of the sentence uses description to hold the readers interest is "we peeled off our sodden coats". Sodden means something that's soaked.

In this case, the narrator could have just written that "we took off our soaked coats" but rather, a description to hold the interest of the reader was used.