DRENCH in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for DRENCH, such as:

1. A heavy rain drenched the travellers.
2. A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.
3. The poster don't stick even though I drench it with glue.
4. Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spots to her body.
5. The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRENCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drench
 v.  wet through and through; soak; put potion down throat of; steep in moisture; wet thoroughly
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  He cannot be in bed, I thought: those showers would drench him through.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Only then he suddenly awoke to the fact that he had been wrong about the weather and the rain was drenching his hay.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
3  Serpuhovskoy went into the house to the bathroom to wash his hands and found Vronsky there; Vronsky was drenching his head with water.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 21
4  And now a drenching rain poured down and the rising hurricane drove it in sheets along the ground.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Now she remembered the little umbrella, which she had forgotten to take in her hurry to be off, but regret was unavailing, and nothing could be done but borrow one or submit to a drenching.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
6  When they were more than usually tall she lifted the baby to the top of her head, that it might be out of the reach of their drenching fronds.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
7  Then she snatched her hands from his, threw her arms about his neck, and pressed a sudden drenched cheek against his face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spots to her body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  Beyond the turrets of the outer wall the jungle glared and shrieked, and the sun was furious above drenched orchids.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Nothing moved except the gliding carriages, and the people were small and wooden, spots in a picture drenched with gold and hard bright blues.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  He sauntered into the living-room and his glance passed from her drenched hat to her smeared rubbers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  The wet snow drenched their gloves; the water underfoot splashed their itching ankles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat, we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
15  During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for the time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever addressed his mates.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
Example Sentence:
1  The poster don't stick even though I drench it with glue.
2  Too much conflict, too many days without food, too many nights drenched from the rain and you just have angry people.
3  "Watch what you're doing, you clumsy oaf!" Bill shouted at the waiter who had drenched him with iced coffee.
4  A heavy rain drenched the travellers.
5  A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.