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"Deluge" in a Sentence (21 examples)
After us, the Deluge.
The deluge was a notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
The flood of 1342 was the biggest deluge in the history of central Europe.
"High in the citadel the monstrous frame / pours forth an armed deluge to the day, / and Sinon, puffed with triumph, spreads the flame. / Part throng the gates, part block each narrow way; / such hosts Mycenae sends, such thousands to the fray."
Force wins a footing, and, the foremost slain, / in, like a deluge, pours the Danaan train.
So when the foaming river, uncontrolled, / bursts through its banks and riots on the plain, / o'er dyke and dam the gathering deluge rolled, / from field to field sweeps on with cattle, flock and fold.
The Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.
“The constant deluge of information can very rapidly shift you from the realm of ‘informed, proactive citizen’ to ‘on-fire garbage can crammed with so much content it ceases to do anything other than feed your anxiety,’” she says.
Even under a deluge of scandal, the shameless politician would not abnegate their post.
In parliament, Home Minister Rajnath Singh underlined the scale of the deluge faced by the city.
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The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set
2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.
On June 8, 2005, a decomposition reaction occurred in the manifold system on a mobile acetylene trailer at Western's Bellville plant that caused the fusible plugs of five cylinders to melt, releasing the products of decomposition. The materials released did not ignite before the deluge system was manually activated, controlling the incident. The incident started when a mobile acetylene trailer, with the cylinder valves open and the manifold fully pressurized, was moved into another bay and the block valve was opened, which initiated an acetylene decomposition reaction.
Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
In Women on the Verge all of the characters are deluged by and constantly dealing with the effects and messages of pop culture.
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