downpour in English
a sudden downpour had filled the gutters and drains
- rainstormcloudburstdelugeshowerthunderstormthundershowertorrential/pouring rain
- cloudburstdelugetorrentpelterwaterspoutsoaker
Use "downpour" in a sentence
1. My, what a downpour.
2. There's going to be a downpour.
3. 23 The north wind brings a downpour,
4. We got caught in a torrential downpour.
5. What moves such downpour after eternal drought?
6. It was the heaviest downpour ever recorded.
7. After a winter downpour, the river floods the plain.
8. I dislike the heavy rain heavy downpour very much.
9. Outside, the downpour continued “for forty days and forty nights.”
10. A downpour of rain put out the children's bonfire.
11. Go down so that the downpour may not detain you!’”
12. That we have been delayed by the downpour, the road conditions.
13. Shortly before the downpour began, God told Noah to enter the completed ark.
14. And all have to do their best to endure the daily downpour.
15. I wouldn't mind a downpour to wash the dust off the streets.
16. For the past six hours the downpour had been continuous and torrential.
17. Motorbikes scooted for cover on the street, and a moment later the downpour began.
18. By far, the largest downpour that any city in India has ever received.
19. Jehovah then unleashes his destructive powers —“a flooding downpour and hailstones, fire and sulphur.”
20. Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour.
21. The river occasionally becomes a torrent after a downpour, and may even cause flooding.
22. The drizzle was becoming a downpour and Henry's hair was plastered to his head.
23. The seeds that had been sown were almost completely washed away by a sudden downpour.
24. The hills loom heavily through the storm, single trees tossed and drenched by the downpour.
25. Fortunately her torrent of abuse was diluted by a downpour of even more torrential rain.
26. The suddenness and ferocity of the downpour had caught all three of them by surprise.
27. Thunder, lightning and a torrential downpour provided an unreal prelude in the futuristic San Nicola stadium.
28. Elijah was confident —so much so that it was as if he could already hear the downpour.
29. The continuous downpour for five straight days made it the worst flooding in Hanoi since 1984.
30. Bareheaded: 1 adj having the head uncovered “caught Bareheaded by the downpour” Synonyms: bared unclothed not wearing clothing
31. Battle of Chancellorsville The locomotive ground to a halt at a little depot amidst a drenching downpour
32. 22 We were having a picnic, when suddenly there came a downpour wasa fly in the ointment.
33. He was walking home from the office in a misting rain when the heavens erupted in a downpour.
34. Many houses in Binh Hung Commune, Binh Chanh District were isolated during and after the downpour. Photo: Tuoi Tre
35. Its only remaining inhabitant, a woman named Wah Wah, is cooking rice in a hut in the afternoon downpour.
36. The unprecedented downpour deluged the nearby Spiceball Park Leisure centre.The building was evacuated, as flood water filled the basement.
37. A single downpour can rapidly transform a lifeless, shallow depression in the desert into a pool throbbing with life.
38. We were having a picnic, when suddenly there came a downpour , which was rather a fly in the ointment.
39. A typhoon also moved in that day, obscuring the mountain and turning the airborne ash into a downpour of mud.
40. Similarly, in these “critical times hard to deal with,” negative conditions can quickly turn into a downpour of adversity.
41. They say we need more rain because most of the downpour will run down the rivers to the sea.
42. It was an extraordinary series of spats in a race that everyone believed would be determined by a downpour.
43. Any heavy downpour of rain would have been very unlikely before the completion of the harvest season in October.
44. 17 We were having a picnic, when suddenly there came a downpour , which was rather a fly in the ointment.
45. Guy knew it would make hard riding easier, but any noise they made would no longer be muffled by the downpour.
46. A heavy downpour before the start left the pitch covered with puddles, which made the behaviour of the ball very unpredictable.
47. One day, when a downpour crawling on the windows made even the trees look grey, he went up to the attic.
48. Parking in front of the clubhouse, our pilot grabbed his briefcase and splashed through the downpour to his colleague's waiting car.
49. “The wind from the north brings forth as with labor pains a downpour; and a tongue giving away a secret, a denounced face.”
50. He gave the people “want of bread,” “withheld from [them] the downpour,” struck them with “scorching and mildew,” and sent among them “a pestilence.”