Torrent
"Torrent" in a Sentence (25 examples)
The cave was toward a torrent.
They bathed in the torrent.
The Crostolo torrent is full of nutrias.
The Crostolo torrent is full of coypus.
Tom directed a torrent of abuse at Mary as she came late again for their weekly meeting.
At a wild torrent which swept out of a ravine they called a halt and watered their horses, while they partook of a hasty breakfast.
For a man, passion is a torrent; for a woman, an abyss.
A torrent of rain fell all night.
Like as a fire, when Southern gusts are rude, / falls on the standing harvest of the plain, / or torrent, hurtling with a mountain flood, / whelms field and oxen's toil and smiling grain, / and rolls whole forests headlong to the main, / while, weetless of the noise, on neighbouring height, / tranced in mute wonder, stands the listening swain.
It is indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house.
Rain fell on the hills in torrents.
A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.
"Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
They endured a torrent of inquiries.
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower.
Western civilization has always taught the repression of emotion […] The emotional torrents of opera rebel against this.
A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.
Waves of torrent fire.
... through the inflexible rain, each turn in the track revealed a new cascade, torrenting down the steep cliff of the hill. The weather was too wild for me to get to them. In good weather, they wouldn't exist.
Outside[,] rain was torrenting down, lightning and thunder heralded the arrival of a summer storm.
I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.
The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
They had two thousand CDs burned with Listnin loaded on them, including versions for every major phone OS, and they'd set up a dozen servers in seven different countries for people to torrent the file from.
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