downpour

A few tear-sized raindrops were followed by a suddenly heavy downpour as the family inside stepped up for a last farewell.

Then the air suddenly turns still, the downpour stops, and the sky transforms from grey to turquoise.

Adding to the pathos, the fickle Charlotte skies chose that moment to unleash a biblical downpour on the entire tableau.

Noting that a downpour has ended, Ringo gets a roar of laughter when he quips “I just said stop and it did.”

Her first foray abroad, earlier this month, brought a rare downpour of brickbats.

And he stepped out into the rain, which had begun again a few minutes earlier, and was now falling in a steady downpour.

The wind and rain had ceased, but the dripping of the branches still kept up an excellent imitation of a downpour.

With a good blinding snowfall, or a pelting downpour of cats and dogs, I might have hoped for a respite.

A sudden downpour of rain, without thunder or lightning, had just passed rapidly over our wide plain.

For long the downpour never ceased by night or by day; it was the rain that rained away the Corn Laws.