[ US /ˈdaʊnpɔɹ/ ]
[ UK /dˈa‍ʊnpɔː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a heavy rain
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How To Use downpour In A Sentence

  • In turn, the gallery's window is fitted with giant windscreen wipers to sweep away a continuous downpour of "rain" inverted commas seem necessary to any description of Weber's wonderfully artificial sculptural conceits. This week's new exhibitions
  • Forecasters have promised more torrential downpours today and tomorrow. The Sun
  • The trinkets they were wearing around their necks and wrists gave off a glimmer in the dim light - the sky had turned into a mass of sullen grey threatening a persistent downpour.
  • The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Environment Agency's rain level gauges around the region confirmed the intensity of the downpour.
  • After the earlier downpours, the rain clouds cleared and the sun arrived just in time for Saturday's colourful street procession.
  • A downpour of rain put out the children's bonfire.
  • Closer to home, in England's West Country, a man woke with a start when he found a deer lurking in his bedroom after a night of heavy downpours and gale force winds.
  • We got the first in a downpour of irresistibly tuneful songs from the classic film.
  • The downpour did not intensify by degrees but simply gushed forth with biblical fury, vertical and windless.
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