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.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOWNPOUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
downpour
 n.  pouring or streaming downwards, especially a heavy or continuous shower
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
2  A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
3  The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
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.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
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.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 17
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 ...
7  The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour of the preceding day.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
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.