downpour
a heavy, drenching rain.
Origin of downpour
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How to use downpour in a sentence
Mainly so the rest of the sorting and drying can begin when the downpours get too heavy to be out in the fields.
Recent turnout has been massive, with over 150,000 people gathering for the ceremony even when there were torrential downpours.
The Tiananmen Square Museum That’s Shocking China’s Tourists | Brendon Hong | May 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor a deal to be done, we need those trickles of rational thought on both sides of the aisle to become downpours.
Ex-Republican Congressman: Shutdown Is a ‘Dangerous Game’ | Steve LaTourette | September 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAs we warm the planet, we also increase the risk of heavy downpours.
Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen | Dominique Browning | April 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTorrential downpours in April of 2010 shut the city down for 36 hours and left over 250 dead and 10,000 homeless.
Well, that day I received the order to move, and finally got into our trenches at four-thirty last night in downpours of rain.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieFollowed, it may be presumed, by well-nigh interrupted peals of thunder and nearly occasional downpours of rain.
The rainfall is confined almost entirely to the winter season, and frequently comes in short heavy downpours.
North America | Israel C. RussellThe country had become water-logged owing to excessive downpours of rain.
The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 | Frederick William BewsherIt has summer rains in heavy downpours, with clear, fine weather between the showers.
British Dictionary definitions for downpour
/ (ˈdaʊnˌpɔː) /
a heavy continuous fall of rain
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