DOWNPOUR in a Sentence
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Example sentences for DOWNPOUR, such as:
1. This village needs a deep ditch or channel to run water after a prolonged downpour.
2. In the resettlement areas that dotted the mountainsides the downpour was a disaster.
3. The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost.
4. The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour of the preceding day.
5. Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour.
2. In the resettlement areas that dotted the mountainsides the downpour was a disaster.
3. The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost.
4. The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour of the preceding day.
5. Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour.
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Meanings and Examples of DOWNPOUR
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downpour
n. a heavy rain
Classic Sentence:
1 Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
2 A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour.
3 The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost.
4 Before he had driven many paces away, the dark clouds that had been threatening rain all day broke, and there was a heavy downpour of rain.
5 They were still two hundred paces from home and a gust of wind had already blown up, and every second the downpour might be looked for.
6 The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the back of the colossus amid claps of thunder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
7 The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour of the preceding day.
Example Sentence:
1 This village needs a deep ditch or channel to run water after a prolonged downpour.
2 In the resettlement areas that dotted the mountainsides the downpour was a disaster.