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Sentence Examples Meanwhile, a huddle of hacks tried to write down his thoughts in the downpour. Staff frantically tried to bail water out with buckets flowing the downpour yesterday afternoon. Monday dawned with thunderstorms and a downpour of tropical intensity, but by midday the sun was out again. On past experience this heatwave will end with a torrential downpour or a major thunderstorm, or both. Somehow I just love those violent eruptions in the sky and the ensuing downpour of torrential rain. On the day of the murder there was torrential downpour of rain on Norfolk Island. The twister or funnel cloud was spotted at around 4pm yesterday as a torrential downpour rained on the town. To escape the downpour, they played ten pin bowls at the local alley, after which the rain cleared for a bushwalk on the last day. We got the first in a downpour of irresistibly tuneful songs from the classic film. He walked down the street just as the slight drizzle turned into a moderate downpour. I arrived shortly before 10 a.m. in a bleak downpour, trusting that someone had recorded my appointment. By six o'clock, we were sheltering from a downpour and gleaning heat from an industrial-size wok in a food tent. The atmosphere is one of bonhomie and hundreds of onlookers, unmindful of the heavy downpour, savour every moment of this unique ritual. Having just got back from the shops near where I work, I am quite wet, having been caught in a bit of a nasty downpour. If there has been a torrential downpour upriver, it will have an affect on water levels. The storm broke as she arrived at the house, and the sudden downpour soaked her between the taxi and the front door. While we were dining in the hotel's restaurant the usual evening thunderstorm broke, along with a blinding downpour. So if I'm caught in a freezing downpour while wearing just cotton, am I better off buck naked? It rained non-stop for three days prior to the fight date, a steady downpour such as only Southeast Asia can produce. More little sprigs began sprinkling down on us from above, and then the sprinkle became a downpour. Show More Sentences The sprinkle had become a downpour by the time Miko reached the forest, as he was not fast enough to escape it. It began as a light sprinkle at first but within five minutes it was a full-blown downpour. A light sprinkle on Thursday lead to an evening downpour just days before the race. I sigh, crack one eye, and regard the interplay of shadows on the wall, listening to the incessant staccato of the downpour. That a relatively short-lived downpour can cause a city to come to a standstill is a tragedy. Yesterday afternoon's heavy downpour and hail here caused havoc and widespread powercuts across the province. Brisbane has gone from heatwave to torrential downpour and back to heatwave. Thunder rolls almost constantly through heavy skies, interspersed by the occasional torrential downpour. If it takes five hours in the process, with a resulting stiff do which makes you look like you were caught in a downpour, so what? The occasional heavy downpour keeps the oppressive humidity at bay, and lessens the sense that we're walking through a steam room. Once dug up, the stretch was never properly repaired again and it becomes flooded after every downpour, they say. They were caused by a sudden violent downpour which drains were unable to cope with. Wallis and Peterson, both Type A joggers, disagreed and donned identical cotton sweatsuits and caps and stepped out into a downpour. There was always the threat of an end-of-summer downpour from the steely-grey clouds above, but none came. Rather than a sudden, drenching cloudburst, last Friday's rain was a slow and steady downpour. An overnight downpour had turned the streets into canals, and the normally immaculate white car emerged from the village streaked with brown mud. Boscastle, on the north coast of Cornwall, was struck after a downpour in which seven inches of rain fell in nine hours. All the way down from Glasgow there is a downpour of such ferocity that I fear for my life. This was the most attractive man she'd ever seen in her life, and she just met him under a pine tree seeking shelter from a torrential downpour. In the end the match was played amid a torrential downpour, plus thunder and lightning. Show More Sentences The downpour cooled off the searing heat but failed to ease the city's looming water shortage. Canyons fill up very quickly after a heavy downpour, although flash floods are not that common. Water levels began to fall by yesterday morning, however, as the heavy downpour gradually eased. The downpour put a damper on the event, sending revellers dashing to their cars. The Environment Agency's rain level gauges around the region confirmed the intensity of the downpour. Dark, direful clouds floated overhead, threatening to release a downpour of rain at any moment, so the park was void of visitors. He says the downpour came at a critical time, after three parched months, which reduced the landscape to a dust bowl. The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour. After weeks of heavy rains, a downpour pounded the Dominican and Haitian island of Hispaniola. Rainwater came through the roof and poured down the walls at the height of the downpour. Every time there is a heavy downpour the garden fills up with raw sewage and floodwater because of inadequate drains up the road. Even the rain seemed to lessen, becoming fine drizzle as opposed to a downpour. Over an excellent breakfast and a couple of flat whites, the drizzle turned into a downpour. The opening quarter had been spoiled by a torrential downpour but as the clouds lifted, the action heated up. The rain dance from the American Indians certainly worked, as on Friday afternoon there was a terrific downpour. These days one moves in and out of pop culture the way one dodges raindrops in a downpour. I suggest they position a Sioux rainmaker at every track to ensure a good downpour during the race. The trees around her all dripped with rainwater after the sudden downpour that took place only fifteen minutes ago. It had rained briefly that evening, a hard downpour that meant the rattlers would be out, having been flushed from their holes. There was drama from the word go as the downpour made the heavy ground at Aintree even more demanding. Show More Sentences Flood levels in Ryedale were going down but yesterday's downpour could make it worse, experts claimed. I don't want to insult you or anything, but girlfriend, you look like an alley cat caught in a downpour. The 23-year-old said the newly relaid Interlagos track was awash with rivers of water after being hit by a torrential downpour. This was a result of a downpour of torrential rain which lasted approximately an hour and a half. The early downpour had just about stopped by the scheduled starting time but there was very little wind to assist the drying out process. They can also take shelter here if there is a sudden downpour. I'd never admit it, but I knew that the desert hid old riverbeds that could quickly flood in such a downpour, so it was quite stupid that I was intending to go there. The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour. Soon it began to rain, and what began with the patter of hail became a succession of cloudbursts, which eventually evened out into an unremitting downpour. Many of the rivers in the area are also suffering from low water, and a good downpour would do wonders for runs of fish, as well as anglers' spirits! The bowlers' tails were up, but another downpour washed out their hopes. So I locked in and drove like a man possessed and when I got there in this torrential downpour there was a quiet fist pump and a celebratory pie eaten. His concern is with songololos, especially after a downpour. The 50-odd travelling support looked a disconsolate bunch as they trudged towards the covered away terracing for shelter from an unexpected torrential downpour. The downpour continued all night, but nary a drop violated my palm thatch. Above the sky was a brooding purple, threatening a downpour. During a downpour I saw two young girls wearing bell-bottomed jeans that were so long the hem waded through every puddle and water had soaked up to the back of their knees! By mid-day the soft drizzle became a steady downpour, a rain that fell through sunset and then created damp clouds of fog under the street lights. On one occasion in early September, I witnessed drooping of the leaves when a sudden summer shower with gusty winds and a brief, but heavy downpour occurred. This excess floatation capacity may allow the insects to bounce on water surfaces, much like a rubber ball on a cement sidewalk, to avoid drowning during a downpour. Show More Sentences Sadly I had neglected to properly shut the skylight, the gales had forced it wide open, and the torrential downpour had torrentially downpoured into my room for 4 hours. The rain descended harder than ever, and he took refuge in the arched doorway of the village church, his boots already bemired, his great coat reeking with the downpour. The last time there was wind from this direction it brought with it a torrential horizontal downpour of rain, but no hope or fear of that this time. The effect is more subtle. Sure enough it began to drizzle rain followed with a downpour. At least five homes in Moresby Close, Westlea, were swamped by up to six inches of foul water when a brook flooded and sewers burst during a recent downpour. The pitter-patter of the monsoon might be a long wait ahead, but with a number of brightly painted umbrellas crowding its walls, this is a downpour of a different kind. In it, the wind howls fiercely, driving rain like stinging knifes in a torrential downpour, so heavy that he can't see more than two feet in front of his face. Make sure all your window wells and stairwells have raised lips around their edges to prevent water in the yard from flowing into the well during a downpour. The mudslides were set off on Christmas Day after a downpour fell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in October and November. Rain came on in the afternoon and in the evening the downpour increased. Just as I was wiping up the last of the egg from my plate there was a general kerfuffle, with people rushing into the supermarket for shelter from a torrential downpour. But it wasn't long before headlights cut through the downpour from behind her, reflecting off her yellow slicker and illuminating the drenched roadside heath. She took a deep breath and wandered through the downpour like an injured soldier dragging himself through the inevitable killing fields which battle conspired to create. But, as conditions deteriorated, a drizzle giving way to a steady downpour, so did the standard of play with a succession of knock-ons gifting both sides possession. The start of the second half was greeted by a downpour of hailstones, and spectators ran for cover, leaving the players to battle it out on the pitch. For the last three nights, spectacular electrical storms have drifted over the city, threatening a downpour that finally arrived with a vengeance last night. Then the air suddenly turns still, the downpour stops, and the sky transforms from grey to turquoise. Last week, the distant rumblings became a downpour after the dismissal of an early favorite, Pia Toscano. For Kysa and Derwin Daniels of Conyers, Georgia, the downpour came last Thanksgiving when Kysa, 35, lost her job as an overnight anchorperson at CNN Headline News in Atlanta. His models have been drenched by a downpour, licked by flames, paint-sprayed by robots and flown on invisible wires high above a pool of lethal spikes. Show More Sentences There was a downpour so we went to his apartment to dry off. Even the one thunderstorm was of a sufficiently Beethovenian scale to put the average local downpour to shame. Apart from a torrential downpour for five minutes, conditions stayed good and as the temperature rose fish began to show on the surface. During a single storm, the precipitation can range from a torrential downpour to a fine mist. They could be quickly strapped into the jump-seats with seatbelts, rather than roping them into the bed of the truck in a downpour. The train landed us on a shedless shelterless platform and we had to run through the downpour across the line to the shelter. His soddenness after being caught in the downpour argued against going out until he had dried out. The 100-metre-high rotating water column, which lasted for just three minutes, developed following a big downpour and a strong gust of wind. But by the last four holes, they were playing in a downpour as Winged Foot threatened to become Webbed Foot. At that moment there was a sudden downpour and we had to shift to the woolshed some distance off to avoid getting bogged. Five villages Sabu, Phyang, Nimoo, Choglumsar and Shapoo are worst hit by the sudden downpour and flash floods. The weather is clement, though there was a downpour yesterday and I was obliged to take precautions. In which case, unfortunately-faced Brummie Anita Shah, below, was an Eccles cake left out in a heavy downpour. The 1973 UEFA Cup Final first leg at Anfield was abandoned due to a downpour after 27 minutes and rescheduled to be played again the next day. The torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land. Some roads along the Bausher-Amerat road, Khasab coastal roads, were affected by rockslides from the mountain, blocking traffic after the heavy downpour. They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked. Examples from Classical Literature The brown dirt path had been scoured and then gullied by the hard downpour. In the wet season they grow into the nimbus and stratus types that precede a sudden downpour of water or a furious hailstorm. There was no picnic and nutting party the next day, owing to a downpour of rain. Now the weather was crisp and cold, now hazy and depressing, and again a downpour. In Yaroslavl there was such a downpour that I had to swathe myself in my leather chiton. I biked the afternoon trek, and got thoroughly drenched by a downpour in doing so. Fearful of being caught in the downpour, I began to retrace my steps. But it was not likely a fire could make much headway in that downpour. The princess had prayed of the Rain God to send that downpour. The dashing downpour did not check the wagon master's flow of profanity. Meanwhile, heavy downpour coupled with hailstorm badly destroyed the standing crops and killed cattle and birds in Karak city and its outskirts. He who lived by the salt sea, in a land of tropic downpour, religiously shunned contact with water. I was standing in Govan Bank on a hellish wet day with all assemblance of dignity washed away in the downpour. Sankara, however, bore that downpour on him with a cheerful heart. A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour. The downpour was greeted by a treble chorus of delight from the tourists. The downpour was incessant and likely to last through the night. It is a sort of steady, persistent, overwhelming, endlessly driving downpour, which makes your heart sick, and opens it to dismal forebodings. The big downpour of rain had not yet come, but the mist-like squalls were more frequent. Then a steady downpour set in, and hid everything but the nearest objects. Show More Sentences And despite the downpour, the deafening thunder and the lightning that seemed ready to sear one's eyes, he walked out of the cave entrance, followed by Tom and the others. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of downpour? Words that rhyme with downpour What is the past tense of downpour? What is the plural of downpour? What is the noun for downpour? Translations for downpour Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words downplays downplaying downplayed downplay downpipe down payment downpours downrange downregulate downregulated downregulation down-regulation 8-letter Words Starting With d do dow down downp downpo downpou