[ UK /klˈa‍ʊdbɜːst/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫaʊdˌbɝst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a heavy rain
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How To Use cloudburst In A Sentence

  • All day it threatens to rain, we get sudden cloudbursts, but only when we're indoors or in the car, never when we might get wet.
  • Picnickers would aver that being caught in the Museum grounds during a cloudburst is hardly a pleasant experience.
  • Pack plenty of spare clothes against the eventuality of getting soaked while out in a torrential cloudburst.
  • News of the Tendulkar shaped void at the heart of the evening spread like a sudden autumn cloudburst, much to the disappointment of the platoons of Indian television crews, who had spent the early evening rattling about the carpeted halls in a state of unfulfilled pre-Sachin anxiety. England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards
  • It has survived thunderstorms and cloudbursts and has taken place every year except during the two world wars.
  • It had eased off, from cloudburst to steady downpour, and the traffic was moving once more. THE SCAR
  • Soon it began to rain, and what began with the patter of hail became a succession of cloudbursts, which eventually evened out into an unremitting downpour.
  • On board the Arangi, relieved by the lowering of her mainsail, as the fierceness went out of the wind and the cloudburst of tropic rain began to fall, Van Horn and Borckman lurched toward each other in the blackness. CHAPTER VI
  • This month too frequent cloudbursts will turn these potholes into lakes.
  • A cloudburst on Sunday afternoon caused the river to flood and they were washed off a low-level bridge.
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