How To Use Deluge In A Sentence

The epic cricket battle between England and Australia has sparked a deluge of wagers. The Sun
Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
One of his idiosyncrasies was a faith in coffee as a panacea; and I heard that while sickening he deluged himself with that beverage, to what profit let physicians say. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable. Creative Control - Part 4
Expect a deluge of apps in the future. Times, Sunday Times

Before Sydney, her quest for five gold medals attracted a deluge of media attention.
The report deluged him with criticism, albeit worded in the silky prose of a veteran mandarin.
The deluges also prompted an increase in crop prices.
Despite the deluge of World Cup promotions and advertising campaigns, Walkers' heavy spending and football tie-ins appear to have cut through the advertising clutter.
Villagers look like they will be losing their main bus service in just over a fortnight, despite a deluge of complaints to the bus company.
A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge.
But with just one day to go, fate spites me with a deluge and I shall drive to work draped in towels and with a cap on my head.
‘We have not been deluged with requests for information so far but we are just a few weeks in so we need to keep an eye on the situation,’ said the spokesman.
This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a deluge came down on them for a full forty five minutes.
The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end.
These giant serpents originated the widely spread notions which typified the deluge and all destructive agents under the form of a dragon or monster serpent; hence, the dragon temples always near water, in Asia, Africa, and Britain; for example, at Abury, in Wiltshire; a symbol of the ark is often associated with the dragon as the preserver from the waters Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
That's quite a deluge, so mudbath ahoy. The Sun
With rivers close to bursting and ground sodden from days of downpours, tonight's fresh deluge comes at a particularly vulnerable time. Times, Sunday Times
In 1794 the ruffians, Danton and Robespierre, fell in succession, and expiated their crimes (if indeed such crimes be expiable at all) on that guillotine which they had so often deluged with the blood of innocence, even of female innocence and beauty. Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France
Move potted plants you want to protect from freezing under the eaves of the house or some other spot where they will be protected from the deluge of winter rains.
Everyone agrees that somebody, somewhere, ought to do something to shelter the public from this polluted deluge of information. Times, Sunday Times
But then, in the late 1980s, credit reports went automated, allowing card companies to send out their first deluge of "preapproved" card offers. StarTribune.com rss feed
He will face a deluge of ridicule and criticism if, having allowed his advisers to hype an early election, he runs away from it. Times, Sunday Times
It seems very peaceful - we've had deluges of rain.
For those of us currently deluged with work, stretching from one week to another, or simply those who work on many different things, tracking down when an event is happening in nigh impossible. The Grand App Writing Challenge Submissions! | jonobacon@home
This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily.
A deluge of postgraduate applicants for the posts of lower division clerks, junior assistants, sweepers, liftmen and durwans have left the Calcutta University (CU) authorities struggling to select the candidates for 200-odd vacancies. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
If not, drop me an e-mail. biscuitblog is the name of the e-mail and the provider is earthlink which is a dot net. see you have to write it out like this or face the deluge of spams from people who scour blogs to grab e-mail addresses. Archive 2007-01-01
Perhaps in reaction to the deluge of cute cats, people in recent years have been combining the pictures with netspeak captions and other humorous text. November 25th, 2007
Having a lot of followers or traffic isn't enough either; if that were the case, aspiring bloggers could just deluge their sites with photos of naked women, or better yet, start a "splog" - Digital, Buzz, viral & social media marketing agency ★★★ Vanksen|Culture-buzz
A few years ago, managers at a Houston airport were faced with a deluge of complaints about long waits at the luggage carousel. Times, Sunday Times
From a situation where starter homes and apartments were languishing on the market for months, estate agents were suddenly deluged with enquiries.
And this group of heroes, according to Hitchens, was subjected to a "near-unbelievable deluge of abusive and calumnious dreck .... Christopher Hitchens' "Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center?
He said on Thursday that he had been deluged with messages from his constituents contradicting him.
The movie star was deluged with requests for her autograph.
Alas this was not to be, as a deluge of rain descended and the dancing had to be abandoned.
And, when he stood entranced in the eye of the storm, he did not think that the deluge would close over him.
When the snow melts, the mountain stream becomes a deluge.
As a place with lousy weather, we're deluged with it. The Sun
At midnight I could hear in my bed the terrific gusts and the sounds of a driving deluge.
With rivers close to bursting and ground sodden from days of downpours, tonight's fresh deluge comes at a particularly vulnerable time. Times, Sunday Times
The Bible clearly teaches a literal six-day creation and a global Deluge.
The changes prompted a deluge of complaints. Times, Sunday Times
The deluge will cap one of the longest stretches of wet weather in memory. Times, Sunday Times
At the back window, the oaks and the steep brown hill looked wonderfully romantic in the deluge.
A five-hour deluge forced a postponement. The Sun
But tourist operators at countryside and seaside destinations admitted they had suffered from the deluges of the past few weeks.
Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the deluge of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time.
Many arguments from both the Flood narrative itself, and from later Scriptural references, establish that the Deluge was indeed universal.
The second warned that the country was about to be hit by a deluge of rain, which wasn't due to stop until the day my trip ended. The Sun
The sudden arrival of warm wet weather caused a mass night-time migration of frogs, newts and toads to deluge the centre in Barnes.
Arthur Ashe Stadium is deluged by rain and buffeted by gale force winds. Times, Sunday Times
The western regions of the vast central African nation have been deluged by heavy downpours as the rainy season gets into full swing.
The heavens opened and a deluge of biblical proportions had within minutes, turned roads into fast-flowing rivers and gardens into lakes.
As a place with lousy weather, we're deluged with it. The Sun
When the snow melts, the mountain stream becomes a deluge.
It feels like a sudden deluge of sadness at the cruelty of what happened. Times, Sunday Times
The sudden arrival of warm wet weather caused a mass night-time migration of frogs, newts and toads to deluge the centre in Barnes.
Nonetheless, after a generation or two, the movement withered away leaving few traces behind it (except for the German Lutheran cities of the north); and this occurred, not because the movement was persecuted out of existence, but because its principal sponsors, the independent-minded szlachta, abandoned it for a revived, populistic Catholicism as a result of the crisis of national survival produced by the mid-seventeenth-century Swedish invasion, the "Deluge. Poland's Past
A deluge of tropical rain fell on us an hour later.
The top of the circus tent was ripped off and sent flying, letting in a deluge of rain that caused thousands of pounds of damage. Times, Sunday Times
The storm, with deluges of rain, sweeps over the mountain and the monsoon reigns over the low lands of Malabar.
Then they went home and played the accursed thing, and second-hand shops nationwide braced themselves for the deluge.
She said she has been "deluged" with positive feedback. SplicedFeed
The top of the circus tent was ripped off and sent flying, letting in a deluge of rain that caused thousands of pounds of damage. Times, Sunday Times
Online forums were deluged with criticism. The Sun
A deluge of medals somehow makes the effort look more meaningful, no matter how little valor accompanies it.
The April festival has been sunk by an ill-timed deluge of rain.
In 2000 a flood deluged his new premises and he had to move again. Times, Sunday Times
The Public Editor's office, by the way, reported to me that they were "deluged" with complaints after that first ad drop. Who Is Funding Distribution Of DVDs About Radical Islam In Campaign Home Stretch?
A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical deluge.
The movements in the duchies were the first drops of a coming deluge. Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1613-15
Only 18 months after the last floods, their homes and businesses have been deluged again.
The changes prompted a deluge of complaints. Times, Sunday Times
This woman actually had to be rescued because so much rain kind of deluged this particular apartment complex. 26 other people had to be brought to safety from the flooding in that apartment complex. CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2009
The April festival has been sunk by an ill-timed deluge of rain.
Unfortunately, nobody considered notifying anyone else, and local and state authorities were soon deluged with calls from panicked citizens.
If a deluge of decaying matter is dumped on them they cannot consume it fast enough. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, insurance companies are bracing themselves for multi-million euro claims following the deluge which left scores of homes and businesses flooded.
York was on a knife-edge tonight as the city's flood defences faced their toughest test following the continuing deluge.
Instead, it has been drainage systems that have struggled to cope with sudden deluge. Times, Sunday Times
Then a deluge, arches of water flowing from the scuppers, splashing onto the rocks, connecting the house with the earth.
The campsite was deluged by a flash flood.
A few years ago, managers at a Houston airport were faced with a deluge of complaints about long waits at the luggage carousel. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of pad, mobile launcher and flame trench was cooled with a water deluge system.
How can you preach fasting, you, who wish to deluge me with such an overmeasure of sorrow? Invisible Links
Since then hundreds have seen it and she has been deluged with calls from creeps. The Sun
The government no longer had need for my services and the university was under great pressure to make room for the deluge of exservicemen as they were demobilized from the armed forces. John Pople - Autobiography
Deluged with product support calls, Lotus hired a batch of college interns that summer to assist in taking calls from frantic users.
The disentombed paganism continued to ferment and rot the hearts of the people till in the next century it burst forth in the deluge of unbridled passions that marked the Reformation. The Young Priest's Keepsake
It has also been deluged with rain. The Sun
It was a trickle rather than a deluge. The Sun
Also, on the morning of the fire, the office was deluged with calls. Christianity Today
Volunteers have reinforced dikes along the Elbe River and sandbagged their homes and businesses trying to avoid a deluge.
Instead, it has been drainage systems that have struggled to cope with sudden deluge. Times, Sunday Times
Yet expectations of a deluge of cheap labour have so far proved unfounded. Times, Sunday Times
A perfect deluge of rain instantly followed, and the roads were quickly flooded.
In another account I am deluged with offers for cheap software.
That data deluge is creating a new kind of search opportunity. (read) How Internet Content Distribution & Discovery Are Changing
A deluge of rain on Friday evening led to several games in the Keighley area being abandoned - as the weather once again took its toll.
Their plight was made much more apparent by the sudden deluge of enclosure acts at the end of the eighteenth century. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
A deluge of manuscripts began to arrive in the post.
There's nothing like a company being deluged with inquiries from media and analysts to force some disclosure to the market.
Talking to publisher friends I gather that they are deluged with manuscripts more than ever before, but I think there is a quality control.
Wolff commenta l’ingénieux système de Leibnitz sur les monades, et noya dans un déluge de paroles, d’arguments, de corollaires, et de citations, quelques problèmes que Leibnitz avait jetées peut-être comme une amorce aux métaphysiciens. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
The report deluged him with criticism, albeit worded in the silky prose of a veteran mandarin.
The river swollen by autumnal rains, deluged the low lands, and Adrian in his favourite boat is employed in the dangerous pastime of plucking the topmost bough from a submerged oak. I.5
But here again is one of the major strengths of blogs: if a story is proven false, it's a rare blogger who isn't deluged with emails and comments.
Traders in Gorse Hill fear customers are shopping elsewhere because of a deluge of fast food outlets and takeaways.
We had some rain, but not a deluge up in Skagit Co. Why I Hate Detachable Magazines
The rain began in the early hours and seemed to be easing as late evening approached but the real deluge came as darkness came on.
When, after the land had again been laid dry through elevation, the northern torrents swept resistlessly on to the sea, the city was again deluged by a sea of water, this time fresh, whose surface rose to an altitude corresponding to the pinnacles of many of our tallest church spires.
The white-minority government's "influx control" policy required all black South Africans to carry a photo-ID "passbook" in urban areas to prevent a deluge of black Africans from flooding in to areas where the jobs were. Chicagotribune.com -
A deluge of electronic information may overwhelm American civil justice.
Noachian deluge
And nothing proves my thesis more than comparing Spielberg's movies to the deluge that comes after him.
At the back window, the oaks and the steep brown hill looked wonderfully romantic in the deluge.
The shops on the riverside suddenly seemed a dangerous place to shelter from the deluge, which had started with a cloudburst about 3 pm on Monday afternoon.
At least seven people died and one is missing in the wake of last Monday's red sludge deluge from a 10-hectare storage pool where a byproduct of aluminum production is kept. Zoltan Bakonyi ARRESTED Over Danube Pollution In Hungary
The epic cricket battle between England and Australia has sparked a deluge of wagers. The Sun
Price says she often felt deluged by a flood of unwanted memories. Times, Sunday Times
When the next deluge comes it'll be in the house. The Sun
A crowded island, the wrong type of rainfall (frequent deluges) on the wrong type of surface (increasingly concreted) and a Victorian system all conspire to give us less available water per person than Israel. Can I use water and be green?
Their plight was made much more apparent by the sudden deluge of enclosure acts at the end of the eighteenth century. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
Powell's campaign said the weekly conference call -- something of a novel campaign approach -- was conceived so that Powell could show that he is accessible (in pointed contrast, they say, to Towns) and in order to manage what they describe as a deluge of press inquiries. All Stories | The New York Observer
When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: June 19, 2009
China said its unchecked lumber industry was a primary cause of the 1998 deluge, the country's worst floods since the 1950s.
The serene Mexican peak, however, sprawls some lava from time to time, however its Bulgarian paronym is part of the colossal play with words, which deluges the Bulgarian Orthodox homeland for an entire month already.
He was distracted from his blindness, he says, by the deluge of mental and physical challenges coming his way.
The floods that threatened to deluge the town centre yesterday put paid to virtually all weekend river match action.
The unprecedented downpour deluged the nearby Spiceball Park Leisure centre.The building was evacuated, as flood water filled the basement.
The shops on the riverside suddenly seemed a dangerous place to shelter from the deluge, which had started with a cloudburst about 3 pm on Monday afternoon.
Soon, though, the court will face a deluge of such cases. Times, Sunday Times
Although don't expect a media deluge. Times, Sunday Times
Price says she often felt deluged by a flood of unwanted memories. Times, Sunday Times
This is good since there is such a deluge of false information in regards to the antiquity of Wicca, and hopefully the seeker who reads these books will come away with a true sense of the age of Wicca.
If a deluge of decaying matter is dumped on them they cannot consume it fast enough. Times, Sunday Times
The commercial broadcaster was deluged with complaints and fans bombarded internet messageboards, many of them criticising presenter Adrian Chiles for his "insubstantial" apology. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The combination of pad, mobile launcher and flame trench was cooled with a water deluge system.
A perfect deluge of rain instantly followed, and the roads were quickly flooded.
Or was it a forecast of the deluge of disaster that has since overtaken the area and the country in the form of cold, heartless crime?
The supposed height of summer has seen deluge after deluge with floods and misery across the country.
Eastern Bay of Plenty farmers are still working furiously to pump out flooded pastures as they prepare for more rain on top of the weekend's deluge, which saw 15 people evacuated from their Whakatane homes after a stopbank breach. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
It was a trickle rather than a deluge. The Sun
IN the evening this surprising heavy tempest passed off, we had a serene sky and a pleasant cool night; having had time enough to collect a great quantity of wood and Pine knots to feed our fires and keep up a light in our camp, which was a lucky precaution, as we found it absolutely necessary to dry our clothes and warm ourselves, for all our skins and bedding were cast over the packs of merchandize to prevent them and our provision from being injured by the deluge of rain; next day was cool and pleasant, the air having recovered its elasticity and vivific spirit; I found myself cheerful and invigorated; indeed all around us appeared reanimated, and nature presents her cheerful countenance; the vegetables smile in their blooming decorations and sparkling crystaline dew-drop. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
Online forums have been deluged with complaints by expats denouncing the trial as a whitewash. Times, Sunday Times
But the scale of last year's flooding surpassed these previous deluges, with 45 square kilometres of land submerged.
No wonder then that there is panic about this deluge of pornography that is desecrating culture and family values.
When the snow melts, the mountain stream becomes a deluge.
vehement deluges of rain
We all know during festive seasons such as Christmas the children will be deluged by an avalanche of toys.
The public is deluged with graphic accounts of horrible and dreadful news delivered both in orally pictorial detail assisted by visual depictions.
The spring thaw caused the river to deluge the region.
And then the heavens opened, releasing a deluge of heavy rain that had all three of us scrambling to be the first back in the house.
Afterward, the site was "deluged" with comments and "swarms and swarms" of hate mail, Mr. Erickson says. Paul's Supporters Clash With Media
The systems track the deluge of details associated with each freight load, including the shipper, the carrier, the goods, bills of lading, and the like.
After the deluge a chastened Packard would face fury in the morning. Whicker's War
Watching President Obama address the White House Press Corps apres le deluge is a dispiriting affair. Bob Jacobson: The President Is Dispiriting
* To me, however, Gordon Brown's barmiest idea was the one encapsulated in a headline on the Sky News website two months ago, during the deluge in the north of England. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The steady trickle of female, retro styled soul vocalists is threatening to become something of a deluge these days.
We should be deluged with statistics, but we aren't.
A momentary romance, that quick magic, the wisp of a mystery, the deluge of life-giving water - this is the stuff of the monsoon.
The next instant she was in the trough, her leerail buried till the ocean was level with her hatch-combings, sea after sea breaking over her weather rail and sweeping what remained exposed of the deck with icy deluges. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
But women are also deluged with what I call expectation overload. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Preliminary data suggest this rainfall triggered a 500-year flood deluge.
The maypole dancing unfortunately coincided with a particularly heavy shower but the young performers bravely completed their routine despite the deluge.
In 2000 a flood deluged his new premises and he had to move again. Times, Sunday Times
I have sent our folks out to gather fruit at a venture: and now this misery will soon be ended with his illness; driven away by deluges of lemonade, I think, made in defiance of wasps, flies, and a kind of volant beetle, wonderfully beautiful and very pertinacious in his attacks; and who makes dreadful depredations on my sugar and currant-jelly, so necessary on this occasion of illness, and so attractive to all these detestable inhabitants of a place so lovely. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
A deluge of email has arrived from people who read one of last week's postings and want to know three reasons why, specifically, the Russians beat us into space but not to the moon.
The Bishop "despaired," as he well might, "of ever seeing it proved that the whole earth had been peopled before the Deluge. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Their plight was made much more apparent by the sudden deluge of enclosure acts at the end of the eighteenth century. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
Police fielded a deluge of car vandalism complaints from motorists in north and west Wiltshire over Christmas.
But in the light of devastation caused before the Foss barrier existed - where watermarks on the wall testify to the deluges of 1982, 1947 and 1831 - there was relatively nothing to fear.
It turned roads into unnavigable debris fields, and triggered floods and landslides that left communities deluged and cut off. Times, Sunday Times
In Egypt it was at first the Scorpion, first zodiacal sign after Libra, and for a long time chief of the winter signs; then it was the Bear, or the polar Ass, called Typhon, that is to say, deluge, ** on account of the rains which deluge the earth during the dominion of that star. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
The problem first surfaced when a deluge on July 12 th 1997, swept through the Glencullen area.
Luminara was not alone in taking a couple of surprised steps backward as a veritable deluge of noisy, jabbering, furry bipeds spewed from the concealed crawlway. The Cat is a Metaphor
The Bible certainly seemed to speak historically - Creation, The Deluge, The Tower of Babel - and yet the theologians said these things were myth, or poetry, or allegory.
It feels like a sudden deluge of sadness at the cruelty of what happened. Times, Sunday Times
If a deluge of decaying matter is dumped on them they cannot consume it fast enough. Times, Sunday Times
Shopkeepers board up their windows, plastic bags tumble across the road, a few warning drops smatter the ground foreshadowing the deluge sure to follow. First Rains « Cameroon
Tragedy struck again in 1955, when another thunderstorm burst with a deluge of rain. Times, Sunday Times
That legislation was a cultural and political watershed; our country was still deluged with headline news detailing the ongoing struggle.
A couple of months ago when Deborah Howell was "deluged" with "uncivilized" comments about her failure to correct a blatant misrepresentation, the Washington Post ombudsman and others had a shrieking fit of the vapors and spent days on the fainting couch mumbling incoherently about the rude insults they had to endure. Hullabaloo
As he tumbled lifeless to the ground his blood gushed forth from his wounds and caused a great deluge. The Gods of Asgard
The wallchart notwithstanding, the deluge has created administrative problems. Times, Sunday Times
The recent deluge has left most cattle farmers in a crisis situation as regards grazing management and silage cutting.
Here in northern Idaho, near where the deluge began, I survey the rounded mountains and river deltas, trying to imagine the force of such a catastrophe.
Online forums were deluged with criticism. The Sun
Ultimately, however, it makes for a refreshingly realistic perspective, unlike the phony, manufactured pop culture movies we are deluged with.
Shovel the deluged, spurting, shoveling, rhombus fields with all that you can pick from the laden streets of the land and make your house there in the land if you like. Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)
Through catastrophes such as the Deluge or Sodom and Gomorrah, the religious imagination fantasised about the end of the world.
People are concerned that El Nino might engulf their homes with storm water - but they often swallow the deluge provided by El Bunko.
_Apres moi le deluge -- apres ca le deluge_ -- it might even come to that this time, they were both so tired -- and he viewed the prospect as a man mortally hurt might view the gradual failing of sun and sky above him, with hopelessness complete as a cloud in that sky, but with heart and brain too beaten now to be surprised with either agony or fear. Young People's Pride
Hard science does a lot better at this - generate interesting results, and you'll be deluged with requests to see the data so that other scientists can replicate it.
The deluges of rain upon the volcano slopes, which may be augmented by melting ice, help to mobilize ash and debris flows (lahars).
The movie star was deluged with requests for her autograph.
At Harrogate, the hosts were put in to bat on a new strip hastily prepared because the intended pitch had been flooded by Friday's deluge.
Since then hundreds have seen it and she has been deluged with calls from creeps. The Sun
Which is good, of course, providing the flow doesn't become a flood, and the flood a mindless deluge.

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