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Sentence Examples A torrent of scientific and popular publications on the subject began to appear. Instead of shrugging his shoulders, he became agitated and a sarcastic torrent of words flew out. A torrent of people rushed from their office buildings throughout the capital, eager to leave a city under siege. In 1982, a debris torrent poured off a clear-cut, carrying huge trees from the downstream, uncut forest. He lost everything when the mighty Jamuna river burst its banks, unleashing a torrent that engulfed his village. It was dark and gloomy and he could not see very well past the torrent of cascading water. The show culminated with Rivers swearing at Nielsen unleashing a torrent of Italian curses. What was once a sluggish, silted and overgrown stream has been transformed into a gushing torrent thanks to the hard work of a conservation team. Her face crumpled as tears spilled over, running down her cheeks in a torrent. A supposedly emancipated market is emasculated by a torrent of trade-distorting subsidies. Grandpa, a war hero, is wheeled daily to locations where his medals and upturned hat promote a torrent of coins. These ordinary people unleashed a torrent of religiosity that had been dammed up by the traditional dispensers of religious faith. Many in the press predicted that the FDA's actions would open the floodgates to a torrent of spurious claims. Valerie had quickly covered Devin's mouth before he could explode with his torrent of name calling. He looked for a moment as if he was going to break out with a torrent of objurgation. Again, we're hearing a torrent of policy, and I think this is off-putting to most people. Rachel actually paled, her chest tightening with a surprising torrent of fear as well as an emotion she could not recognize. Satisfying his inbuilt drive to explore and understand, Peter had experienced real science, science not swamped by a torrent of words. A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie. And of course there was the cornucopia of the ice machine, which disgorged a torrent of pure perfect cubes at the touch of a button. Show More Sentences Crunching over the top of a ridge, we drop into a large bowl where rivulets of water gather to form a torrent that plunges into a crevasse. I've seen a few of the files on various torrent sites, they are being leeched on by the thousand. With the first big rain of the year, a torrent of mud, silt, and debris had swept down the feeder stream. The Florida Marlins swam against a torrent of critics, naysayers and opponents to win the World Series. This has earned the duo a torrent of bad press from the national newspapers, BBC Watchdog and the Government. Artemis kept the torrent of water streaming towards the animal but it did no good in slowing it down. The Owenduff river flows off Corslieve and was a raging torrent by comparison with the gentle stream of the summer. When they tried talking to the youngsters concerned they claim they received a torrent of abuse. She responded from the public gallery with a torrent of abuse at court staff, while Ashley hit a policewoman in the dock. It points, like an arrow, to the one word that stops her from hurling a torrent of abuse at him. Three men who have helped control each other's mental illnesses have been forced from their home by a torrent of abuse. Ocap has been subjected to a torrent of criticism in the media and by mainstream politicians. It also brought a torrent of anti-union abuse and lies in most of the media. Sometimes a torrent of words flood out, full of references to rap, hip hop and skateboarding. The gunship circled in the night sky, raining a torrent of bullets down on buildings and streets nearby. If anyone complains, they are met with a torrent of abuse or even physical threats. She barely lets me finish and unleashes a torrent of abuse in my direction. After a year which has seen Goodwin suffer a torrent of abuse over his share price, these were the first signs of submission. After that disgraceful performance the players should have been subjected to a torrent of jeers and whistles. They humiliated Brian, subjecting him to a torrent of physical and emotional abuse. Show More Sentences Malcolm heard a torrent of foreign words as the girl tried to calm the child, then a bustle as she laid him down. He became angry when she asked him to get off so she could pull away and launched a torrent of abuse. All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances. He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality. A terrified Essex family waded waist-deep through a raging torrent to escape flash floods which devastated a Cornish village. They are irrigated by surface water poured from gargoyles, a torrent that in winter becomes magically frozen. My post yesterday about bounders and cads provoked a torrent of commentary and email, so I thought I'd share it with everyone. He closed his eyes and let his power surge through him, gritting his teeth against the torrent. The crew flurried up like a torrent of snowflakes, cast about in attempts to fulfill commands as the ship berthed. This bridge swings and jounces at a disastrous height above the torrent below. The clouds parted and a torrent of rain and hail flowed down toward the earth. At ten o'clock it was sheeting down, a huge torrent, and the cars on the road outside threw up massive sprays as they whizzed passed. Others claim that the greater affordability of skiing means that the slopes are now being ruined by a torrent of reckless boarders and skiers. Natalia was struggling to contain herself, a torrent of emotions wanting to burst forth and unleash themselves with unrelenting mercilessness. The Government was today trying to fend off a torrent of criticism following the latest bail-out for the cash-strapped showpiece attraction. He has staunchly defended his plan against a torrent of criticism by touting the new anti-fraud technology he said would improve security. It needs fresh conflict, drama, the torrent of social stimuli that rouses it to activity. The guy laughed, and soon enough a torrent of crude jokes and insults were flying around. The water flowed down his garden to join the torrent coming down the stream. But the torrent of brown water, which was already flattening buildings, wiped out the jeep, drowning her grandchildren. Show More Sentences Flood-hit Fair Oak traders are still counting the cost of a huge torrent of water which submerged part of the shopping parade. He unleashed a torrent of classic West stage shenanigans, followed by the obligatory mic drop. He let out a yell as he set forth his magic, sending a torrent of water streaming towards the beasts in front of him. A smelly torrent of water flooded over him, and he let go, spluttering bad temperedly. More than two decades before, a torrent of information had overwhelmed detectives hunting the Yorkshire Ripper. But this year it could be said his actions are speaking louder than the torrent of words with which he showers his questioners. All night we heard beating of drums, and all the trainbands were up, but no restraint to the torrent. A soft-spoken polished professional, he appeared to be restraining a torrent of unprintable words as he processed his own personal New Orleans nightmare. The water gurgled musically in a small twisting torrent from the old tap. Overnight, the torrent of East German refugees drops to a trickle. In a violent altercation in Barcelona with a Moroccan bag snatcher last month I came out with a torrent of extremely filthy Italian which I did not know I knew. Unfortunately, he's a runaway freight train of creativity, with no one in the brake room to slow down his torrent of hangdog, peculiarly American balladry. Germany complains ever louder about the cost of supporting the Polish and Slovak economies as these countries race ahead, attracting a torrent of foreign investment. I recently remonstrated with two of them throwing crisps at each other and then the bag thrown on the ground and received a torrent of abusive foul language. A torrent of repetition and gibberish pours unendingly from the mouth of a man in a clown costume in Naumann's painful, static video installation. His intensity is constant, the flow of words an eternal torrent. John Luther Adams lives up to the title of his composition, capturing an oceanic torrent of sound in an awe-inspiring performance. Knowing that the end is near, he and his gang let loose with a torrent of pranks and practical jokes designed to drive the association and the local cops crazy. Backup dancers materialize, sparking a torrent of eye-catching choreography. Had the adrenaline not flowed throughout my body in such a torrent, I might have felt the effects of the heatless room even more. Show More Sentences The cascade of same-sex marriage rulings is now a torrent, each more quotable and image-ready than the last. The book delivers a torrent of detail, in a form as precisely machined as the innards of a Swiss watch. In squads they learnt how to obey orders instinctively, and to react to a single word of command, by coping with a torrent of abuse from the drill sergeants. But there is another side to discourse, a side that may often hide under the torrent of words and rhetoric, appearing only in the emotiveness of the vocabulary we use. At approximately 3,500m altitude, my ears pop, and the mild breeze filtering into the car becomes a cold torrent, and the ascent suddenly increases. As far as the local officials are concerned, we all know that their responsibility will differ depending on whether it was mountain torrent, mudrock slide or river overflow. The burn was a torrent and though a couple of small herling were caught where the frothing, peat-stained water met with the salt of the sea, no fish of any size were showing. While the band was riffing away, Fallon would unleash a torrent of lyrics about monster trucks, prison planets and yetis in his unmistakable throaty roar. He resigned following a torrent of attacks on his performance after the August 29 superstorm that devastated New Orleans and the surrounding region. But as Michael Tomasky argues, we should all dread the effect of her torrent of lies and demagoguery on our politics. The second cultural strain revealed itself in a torrent of abuse on Twitter and other forums. And as usual, Dermer levels his accusations with a torrent of intellectual self-regard and little actual evidence. For her efforts, Spangler receives a torrent of hate mail and death threats. There will be a storm of prudent rhetoric, a blizzard of initiatives and tax breaks and a torrent of concessions towards pensioners and motorists in rural areas. By apparently referring to one version of events, Jones unleashed a torrent of vitriol. Even GM's ballyhooed product czar, Vice Chairman Robert Lutz, hasn't exactly unleashed a torrent of winning models. A stream of inquiry and comment issued from her lips.... At last Gillian managed to stem the torrent of garrulity and interposed a question. The result is a soul-crushing torrent of grey sludge with a Eurotrash sheen and an indecently large helping of xenophobia. A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen. Contrary to popular belief that Bittorrent protocol is only used to share copyrighted material, torrent. Show More Sentences The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie. In the glacial era, the Ythan River at this point would have been a torrent of melt waters streaming down from the Scottish Highlands. The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it. We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Could this strange crystal torrent have 42 per cent proof spirit powers? He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling. And logging without adequate streamside protection has had an effect on many populations of the tailed frog and torrent salamander throughout the Pacific Northwest. A confluent smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up. Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent. Its torrent of meltwater gushed through the Finchley Gap and south towards the new course of the Thames, and proceeded to carve out the Brent Valley in the process. Built essentially of teakwood and bamboo, floods of fire roll, roil, and gush through the buildings, streets, and infrastructure of Japan in an all-consuming torrent. Examples from Classical Literature Rain came, in a torrent of water, heavy as lead, drenching her to the skin. It all poured out of him in a torrent, his hand on my knee most of the time. Mr. Quatermain has just said that the donga was filled by a roaring torrent. He did not feel the torn skin on face and hands, nor know that a fresh torrent of blood burst from the abrasure on his head. His love welled out in blissfulness, and the sight of it swept away the beholders in a torrent of love. Then the mud, the lava, the volcanic stones, all spouted forth in a torrent. A perfect torrent of bullets ripped up the dirt and cascaded us with gravel and mud. If by chance the detritus accumulates rapidly, the slope is steepened and the work of the torrent made more efficient. Shortly after it is joined from the north by a large torrent called the Ujh, which rises in the Jammu hills. Of all these, the most terrible is the midmost, down which rolls an impetuous torrent. Rose and John, after a torrent of invectives, left that part of the country. At Kokomo the water in some of the streets was eight feet deep and rushing like a mountain torrent. We several times had to cross the Lae, which is 35 metres wide, and rushes along like a torrent, with a great noise. They crossed the torrent by a stone bridge that seemed to have become a natural feature in the landskip. An excursus upon Napoleon had got into the torrent somehow and kept bobbing up and down. It is a volley of pebbles that the mistral carries with it as a torrent does. There I lay amid the most vociferous mirth I ever listened to, under the confounded torrent of ironmongery that half-stunned me. The water-spout that had fallen during night has found its way into Loch Ness, and the torrent has subsided into a burn. What of Kfiristn lies nearest to Al-shang, is ml out of which its torrent issues. He drew his breath in deeply, smothering back the torrent of rising words he knew were unpermissible. Show More Sentences He added a torrent of unprintable Russian and kicked the woman into a swamp of syrup, whisky and flour. In the act of striking him, the torrent of his opponent's rage had reached a stop. The only effect of this remark was to turn the wordy torrent in his direction. That barrier removed, and the torrent of his profligacy will rush on without control. The mighty rushing torrent is the fashion, but who can do the wimpling, dimpling streamlet? A torrent of hot blood seemed to burst from yate's frozen brain, as watershoots from the glaciers in summer. A torrent poured down the athwartships alleyway, and nearly swept me from my feet. Our camp to-night is beside a little hillside torrent on the lower edge of Point Pleasant. Let us rejoice that one such partisan was now at hand to stem the torrent of abuse. Some months later he signed the bail bond of Jefferson Davis, and this provoked a torrent of public indignation. Having paused awhile for words, I poured forth a torrent of abuse on ahern. The unfortunate Angevin, bewildered by this torrent of bad jokes, dared neither reply nor resist. For a time a Black Stream of men eddied in the moonlight round the bishop's coach, like a torrent breaking round a boulder. The Atbara, like the Blue Nile, is an insignificant stream except in the rainy season, when it is a torrent. In fact, her mind had never been overwhelmed by a wasteful torrent of learning. This torrent was the Bagnanza, and it effectively barred all passage. Every creek was a rushing river and every rivulet a raging torrent. The plunging torrent of sound whelmed the mind and stilled the tongue. But are you voluble enough to drown all sense in a torrent of words? Like a torrent they swept down upon the cowed, weakened Mercutians. Show More Sentences At the first sound of his torrent of words Colin had been so surprised that he had only sat up and listened as if he were spellbound. In berserker madness, torrent and uproar, clashed the two colours. He was dragged under as the force of the torrent flung him into midstream. Human will came with its full electric torrent, and vivified the body from which it had been driven. Mrs. armiger met him more than half-way on a torrent of self-accusal. By day he cooked as well, and, in the betweenwhiles, helped Anson in the building of the boat beside the torrent as the green planks came down. He poured forth a torrent of the vilest abuse that ever defiled a pinery. The last sea rushed upon us with the impetuosity of a torrent. Yes, you saw only the torrent that threatened to overturn everything and you gave no attention to the still water. It could be felt that the first word spoken by anyone present would bring a torrent of speech from the whole deputation. A torrent of imprecation rose to his lips, but he left it unuttered. At last, with a final torrent of objurgation, he disappeared. Immediately from all about, out of burrows and rough, rocky lairs, poured a perfect torrent of beasts similar to my captors. Alas, alas, and I thought myself a torrent that could never be dammed! At half-time Buller poured forth a superb torrent of rhetoric. The cabins poured forth a torrent of sailors and officers, each with heaving breast and troubled eye watching the course of the cetacean. The declivity was not great and the torrent was otherwise placid. The Kavirondo, his eyes rolling, shot forth a torrent of language. After that, in a torrent, came Harriet's declaration of independence. The skirt of her shroud hung like a wet weed in the falling torrent. Show More Sentences There were no sounds but the dulled complaining of the torrent and the occasional tinkling of a distant bell. Close by these stables rushed a torrent, or rather a river, the alpheus. Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence. And in that pause in the uproar too, the sun rose, the dark waters became luminously blue, and a torrent of golden light irradiated the world. And then, my dear, before I could say a word he began pouring out a perfect torrent of love-making, laying his very heart and soul at my feet. Above the tumult of the torrent his stentorian tones were plainly heard. A herd of a dozen antelopes were quenching their thirst in the bed of a torrent where some pools of water had lodged. It was not merely the man's words, the torrent of his eloquence. Tom was getting to be animated, and when that was the case, his ideas flowed like a torrent after a thunder-shower, or in volumes, and a little muddily. They lined the rough-made boat down the mountain torrent, nearly losing it a dozen times, and rowed across the south end of Lake Linderman in the thick of a fall blizzard. Rasping up on either side, with oars trailing to save them from snapping, they poured in a living torrent with horrid yell and shrill whoop upon the defenceless merchantman. In the immediate aftershock of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Congress passed a torrent of legislation granting unprecedented new powers to the federal government. As they turned into the avenue leading to the house, a whole choir of feathered songsters fluted a sudden torrent of melodious greeting from their leafy hiding places. They remained stupefied, stranded as it were, in the midst of a torrent, which deafened them by its roaring, but might not move them by its violence. If love is a devastating fire which melts the whole being into one mountain torrent, Mary was no more in love with Denham than she was in love with her poker or her tongs. A limpid torrent goes whistling down the glen, and toward the foot of it winds through a narrow cleft between lofty precipices and hurls itself over a succession of falls. Find more words! 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