How To Use Torrential In A Sentence

Firefighters fought the flames throughout the night despite the strong gusts and torrential rain.
It had been a night of stormy weather, with torrential rain and high winds.
It had been a night of stormy weather, with torrential rain and high winds.
The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
Elsewhere, firefighters battled flash floods caused by the torrential rain.

Forecasters have promised more torrential downpours today and tomorrow. The Sun
The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable. Times, Sunday Times
Older and chubbier, which doesn't matter, he is a torrentially powerful, elemental actor, whose outbursts mesmerize, and whose very silences impress.
Along with the gusty winds, torrential rains and the punishing power shutdowns, it rained snakes of all sizes and colours on the city.
It's been an incredibly foul day, with torrential rain, lots of standing water and slow-moving traffic on the A4.
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But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet.
Lucky you if you managed to escape Blighty and the weekend's torrential downpours. Times, Sunday Times
The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating.
Further south, the monsoon has delivered torrential rains. Times, Sunday Times
The hurricane is lashing the Florida Keys with torrential rain and storm surges now.
A train was derailed and a hospital was flooded as torrential rain caused chaos across the south and east of England. Times, Sunday Times
He said the ‘unfortunate’ accident was due to excessive speed and the torrential rain.
Businesses and houses were ruined as torrential rain caused water levels to rise to record levels.
A train was derailed and a hospital was flooded as torrential rain caused chaos across the south and east of England. Times, Sunday Times
Residents in Sutton-in-Craven, near Skipton, woke up to torrential rain and fast-flowing water outside their front doors yesterday.
Torrential rain could not dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of golfers at Pike Hills Golf Club who have raised thousands of pounds for charity.
He muttered, looking insolently at the flooding shelter as the torrential waters rose.
Extreme storms began in June and hit Peru's high country with bitter cold, high winds, heavy snow and torrential rain at lower altitudes.
The torrential rain and widespread flooding left nowhere untouched.
The Thames was swollen after a sudden thaw of heavy snow and torrential rains. Times, Sunday Times
It had been a night of stormy weather, with torrential rain and high winds.
The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
We've been having some turbulent weather - torrential downpours and thunderstorms.
The rest of the day torrential rain fell, the grass becoming a bog, the river turning to a lake.
With the Cannes Film Festival into its first weekend, festivalgoers continue to endure torrential rain.
Days of torrential downpours left thousands of homes and businesses in Queensland flooded. Times, Sunday Times
She was no curtaintwitcher, like many round here, and despite the torrential flow of other people's business through what was not just her home but her business, she had never succumbed to the temptation to poke her snib in where it hadn't been invited. Quite Ugly One Morning
The 50-odd travelling support looked a disconsolate bunch as they trudged towards the covered away terracing for shelter from an unexpected torrential downpour.
A flash of lightning and a peal of thunder heralded torrential rain.
Thunder, lightning and a torrential downpour provided an unreal prelude in the futuristic San Nicola stadium.
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The staff also bring the firm's own generator for electricity, but today the torrential rain has fused a plug.
The torrential rain may flood the low - lying land out.
I have spent the past three weeks filming in the hillside barrios of Caracas, in streets and breeze-block houses that defy gravity and torrential rain and emerge at night like fireflies in the fog.
The city was soaked throughout the night and well into yesterday morning by torrential rain and the forecast promised more of the same - unhappy portents prevailed. Times, Sunday Times
High winds and torrential rain made conditions difficult but seven bikers and a trike took part in what has become an annual event.
Along drought followed by a wet October drenched in torrential rains and floods, and then the arrival of cold and snow at the end of the month. Times, Sunday Times
But his heart raced anyway, as the light shifted over the torrential waves of vehicles, because there was a feeling of guiltiness in his heart, like he was hiding.
Teams of coastguards, paramedics and firemen had walked for two-and-half hours over the sands to get to the casualty, who had already spent a night trapped in torrential rain.
Christina whipped her head around and the blue Swift fired a torrential jet of water at her.
When they tried to survey members about the impact this has, they had to call off the exercise owing to torrential rain. Times, Sunday Times
After several days of torrential rainfalls, several barrier lakes near Chiufenerh Mountain in Nantou County were yesterday on the verge of collapse.
Brisbane has gone from heatwave to torrential downpour and back to heatwave.
When thunderstorms aren't uprooting forests or rearranging acres of farmland, the South often suffers hailstorms, flashfloods and torrentially ghoulish winds during this season.
Through no fault of the organisers, last year's River Festival was a total washout, with torrential rain and flooding.
QUOTATION: The struggles waged by the different peoples against U.S. imperialism reinforce each other and merge into a torrential worldwide tide of opposition to U.S. imperialism. Lin Biao (1908-71)
If there has been a torrential downpour upriver, it will have an affect on water levels.
The torrential rain may flood the low - lying land out.
Torrential rain over the past fortnight made staging the show even more difficult than usual, said Mr Cothliff, who has run the event for the past five years.
To use an an oft invoked comparison, at least I am not in a tree in Mozambique giving birth to a child as the swollen waters of the Limpopo River rage torrentially below.
The Thames was swollen after a sudden thaw of heavy snow and torrential rains. Times, Sunday Times
Further south, the monsoon has delivered torrential rains. Times, Sunday Times
Rita is driving massive storm surges and bringing with it torrential rainfall.
The warning was issued in view of the torrential rains to rainstorms and strong winds forecast for the valleys.
When they tried to survey members about the impact this has, they had to call off the exercise owing to torrential rain. Times, Sunday Times
On past experience this heatwave will end with a torrential downpour or a major thunderstorm, or both.
The kicks will rain down on him this autumn, like torrential rain, we shall see. Times, Sunday Times
The torrential rain seemed to be an ominous sign of the battle to come. Times, Sunday Times
The torrential rain seemed to be an ominous sign of the battle to come. Times, Sunday Times
The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable. Times, Sunday Times
After two days of sunshine, torrential rain started falling in Australia too, washing out part of his holiday.
The torrential rain may flood the low - lying land out.
So torrential was the downpour, that the fourth round, which had already started - it was 36 holes a day - was abandoned.
You could barely see the barber jackets for the brollies ... torrential rain and wind made the going heavy everywhere at Cheltenham.
This was a result of a downpour of torrential rain which lasted approximately an hour and a half.
At least the torrential rain had stopped pouring outside, while the never-ending supply of the usual beverages flowed copiously inside.
Times’s review of critic James Wood’s How Fiction Works and ran across this term, a rhetorical term, I suppose: Biblical polysyndeton, “a series of conjunctions, making for torrential sentences.” 2008 September « Exile on Ninth Street
We have had a storm of apocalyptic proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours.
The heaven's opened and it rained torrentially.
Anywhere could see torrential downpours and very heavy rain in a very short period. The Sun
This was a result of a downpour of torrential rain which lasted approximately an hour and a half.
The River Frome had burst its banks after torrential rain.
After torrential rain on Thursday, the site was drying out in the sunshine yesterday as the music kicked off in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
Picture the many forms of water - from swelling surf to torrential rain to spouting geyser to limpid pool to sparkling bubbles to tinkling iceblocks to healing tears.
When they tried to survey members about the impact this has, they had to call off the exercise owing to torrential rain. Times, Sunday Times
The weather had been particularly awful that summer, inclement to the extreme, and yet, every day we had been determined to brave the driving sandstorms, torrential downpours and icy surf.
A fierce, freezing wind whipped torrential rain into their faces.
Another week of torrential downpours has been predicted with the London Games just ten days away. The Sun
The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable. Times, Sunday Times
The city was soaked throughout the night and well into yesterday morning by torrential rain and the forecast promised more of the same - unhappy portents prevailed. Times, Sunday Times
His editorials claim that the men had been made to stay in the open along with their wives and children despite the torrential rain.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said torrential rain and water from the overflowing Yalu, or Amnok as it's known in Korean, swamped houses, public buildings, and farmland in more than five villages near Sinuiju, the city opposite Dandong. Eyewitness News
In neighbouring Botswana torrential rains that have lashed the southern, central and eastern parts of the country are now moving towards tourist destinations in the west.
A monsoonal low brought torrential downpours to northern Australia last week. Weatherwatch: Storms ravage north America and Australia
We have also had difficulty with torrential rain on site affecting the lighting and sound. Times, Sunday Times
The last time there was wind from this direction it brought with it a torrential horizontal downpour of rain, but no hope or fear of that this time. The effect is more subtle.
Just as I was wiping up the last of the egg from my plate there was a general kerfuffle, with people rushing into the supermarket for shelter from a torrential downpour.
The bid was finally sunk last weekend when the existing course could not stand up to torrential rain.
Perhaps the summer seemed miserable as a result of some spectacularly wet days when the rain was torrential. Times, Sunday Times
After torrential rain on Thursday, the site was drying out in the sunshine yesterday as the music kicked off in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
The storm lashed the south of the country with torrential rain yesterday, triggering flash floods and landslides. Times, Sunday Times
Her skin pricked with excitement and anticipation, sweat trickled from her pores, and her blood rushed torrentially throughout her veins.
They blamed blocked road drains being unable to cope with the torrential rain held back by road humps.
Forecasters have promised more torrential downpours today and tomorrow. The Sun
The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
A flash of lightning and a peal of thunder heralded torrential rain.
It is caused, they maintain, by sewers unable to cope with torrential downpours. Times, Sunday Times
The main risk is that landslides caused by torrential rain could really pose a threat to people, particularly in the rural areas. Times, Sunday Times
As torrential rain fell Malton still persevered with an adventurous and open game.
When they tried to survey members about the impact this has, they had to call off the exercise owing to torrential rain. Times, Sunday Times
The rushing floodwaters and torrential rain made communication difficult, and rescue attempts failed repeatedly.
It will move eastwards across Britain today and tomorrow, bringing more torrential rain and powerful winds. Times, Sunday Times
Since then, the mountainous county has been prone to mudflows and landslides triggered by torrential rains.
We have also had difficulty with torrential rain on site affecting the lighting and sound. Times, Sunday Times
We have also had difficulty with torrential rain on site affecting the lighting and sound. Times, Sunday Times
Sure, the information superhighway is supposed to meld all these technologies into a torrential digital stream. Technology: Changing the Way We Communicate
We were expecting to step outside at the end of the evening and be buffeted by high winds and soaked by torrential rain.
Wind hit an estimated 140 mph in Tennessee and the storms carried torrential rain and golf-ball-sized hail.
As soon as they had left the field, the storm broke and there was torrential rain.
The graceful sweep of an albatross as it glides above mountainous waves and through torrential storms has amazed generations of sailors and naturalists. Times, Sunday Times
Another extreme example of habitat adaptation is found in hillstream loaches, which live in the steep, torrential watercourses of Asiatic hillstreams.
They duly arrived at 9.30 in spite of torrential rain.
Torrential is rain still falling, triggering mudslides in Austria.
It was, of course, winter in the southern hemisphere and the rain was frequently torrential. Times, Sunday Times
The torrential rain seemed to be an ominous sign of the battle to come. Times, Sunday Times
He achieved 47 metres last September, beating off competition from 133 top skimmers despite torrential rain, stiff winds and foot-high waves.
Another week of torrential downpours has been predicted with the London Games just ten days away. The Sun
Organisers and festivalgoers alike will be hoping Edinburgh's penchant for torrential rain subsides when the thespians land.
The opening quarter had been spoiled by a torrential downpour but as the clouds lifted, the action heated up.
A flash of lightning and a peal of thunder heralded torrential rain.
Some bufonids lay eggs on leaves above water, and a few species have tadpoles that live in torrential streams and have suckers on their bellies, which they use to attach themselves to the substrate.
The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable. Times, Sunday Times
The English set up camp on the high moorland but now faced the full onslaught of torrential rain, high winds and the cold. Times, Sunday Times
In it, the wind howls fiercely, driving rain like stinging knifes in a torrential downpour, so heavy that he can't see more than two feet in front of his face.
When thunderstorms aren't uprooting forests or rearranging acres of farmland, the South often suffers hailstorms, flashfloods and torrentially ghoulish winds during this season.
Two schoolchildren are up for a bravery award after helping their grandmother when she fell in torrential rain.
Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched.
Mini-oases of peace occur in harbours, sheltered from the torrential force of spring snowmelt.
There have been many cases in which stormy winds and torrential rains have inflicted serious damage.
Those same raw nerves, however, also spilled into every bar of the opera's music and also explain the torrential savagery of the emotions it recreates in the listener.
In the end the match was played amid a torrential downpour, plus thunder and lightning.
CHICAGO — Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades. Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago
Many Poles recalled the devastating floods of 1997 when torrential rain then caused the river Oder to flood its banks.
Or perhaps water reminded them of floods, torrential rain, or raging engorged rivers.
Tropical Storm Gustav torrential rains trigging serious flooding and landslides that have killed 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
He spent many nights sleeping in an open orchard in torrential rain until he located a small cave.
The storm lashed the south of the country with torrential rain yesterday, triggering flash floods and landslides. Times, Sunday Times
The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
CHICAGO mdash; Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois ... Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago
Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour.
Up to 50,000 fans partied in the capital before kick-off despite torrential downpours. The Sun
The rain-bringing mesoscale convective system is strong, and the torrential rains move slowly northwards along the Western side of the mountains.
But those hopes were scuppered by Friday's torrential rain which also made Saturday a total washout, and even prevented any play until after lunch yesterday.
Three days of torrential rains in Shaaxi province left nine people dead and six others missing.
But both sides struggled in torrential rain and on a surface which looked like sticky glue. The Sun
It was, of course, winter in the southern hemisphere and the rain was frequently torrential. Times, Sunday Times
The inclement weather has kept us out of the garden today, with high, cold winds and torrential rain limiting activity to the greenhouse.
Play then deteriorated as both sets of support in the open terracing scattered for shelter from torrential rain.
On the paddy fields of the far east of Wales, with torrential rain falling throughout, there was very little rugby.
He was consternated, as memories began to flow torrentially back into his mind.
I planned to ride the Freecross to my korfball training session , but the rain was so torrential it was called off. The Guardian World News
Strong winds and torrential rain combined to make conditions terrible for golfers in the Scottish Open.
An hour later we were caught in a terrific thunder storm - lightning, torrential rain, the works.
Elsewhere in the Kingdom they've been having major thunderstorms and torrential downpours so I'm not going to complain when all we've had is a long case of the metereological sulks.
Last night they were hit by torrential rain as they began to make the port shipshape for aid deliveries.
Others queued for hours in torrential rain to see the top of their heads at night. Times, Sunday Times
And over all that torrential confusion of men and purposes fluttered that strange flag, the stars and stripes, that meant at once the noblest thing in life, and the least noble, that is to say, Liberty on the one hand, and on the other the base jealousy the individual self-seeker feels towards the common purpose of the State. The War in the Air
Thousands were forced to flee as a second day of torrential downpours saw more rivers bursting their banks. The Sun
A fine day was expected to increase the turnout on last year's vote, when day-long torrential rain kept many potential voters home and dry.
Strong winds and torrential rain combined to make conditions terrible for golfers in the Scottish Open.
Sadly I had neglected to properly shut the skylight, the gales had forced it wide open, and the torrential downpour had torrentially downpoured into my room for 4 hours.
The kicks will rain down on him this autumn, like torrential rain, we shall see. Times, Sunday Times
THE torrential downpours this winter have made driving incredibly difficult, if not downright dangerous. The Sun
The torrential rain seemed to be an ominous sign of the battle to come. Times, Sunday Times
Lucky you if you managed to escape Blighty and the weekend's torrential downpours. Times, Sunday Times
It flew through torrential rain and sleet and snow showers to arrive just before 8am.
Because torrential rain had flooded the road, the driver and passengers stayed on-board after the engine had stalled.
There were torrential rains, rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops, churches were struck by lightning in heavy thunderstorms.
The torrential rain may flood the low - lying land out.
After a bumpy end to our four and a half hour flight to Paphos in the south-west of the island, we were faced with torrential rain, gale force winds and the kind of temperatures we hoped we'd left behind in Ireland.
A fast torrential rain began to fall, hard and thick making it impossible to see anything in front of the car.
Forecasters have promised more torrential downpours today and tomorrow. The Sun
The inundation occurred because Sanchung's water displacement system was incapable of handling the torrential rain, the city said.
Pack plenty of spare clothes against the eventuality of getting soaked while out in a torrential cloudburst.
The weather is finally set to clear after more than a week of torrential rain signalling a let-up for those who have been suffering from flooding.
The Thames was swollen after a sudden thaw of heavy snow and torrential rains. Times, Sunday Times
Experts last night warned that torrential rain could bring other dangerous creatures into the area. The Sun
But observers blamed the torrential rain that fell on the capital before and after the ceremony.
The twister or funnel cloud was spotted at around 4pm yesterday as a torrential downpour rained on the town.
We had torrential, cold, wet and muddy weather while filming. The Sun
Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched.
Outside the clouds had burst and it was raining torrentially, the Gulf Stream swept in over the Cliffs of Moher and tempestuously lashed down on all of Ireland who faced the desolate Atlantic alone.
Caption :FLASH FLOOD: A rescuer helped pull a vehicle from mud after a flash flood caused by torrential rain hit Rongjiang County, Guizhou province, China, Tuesday.
The Thames was swollen after a sudden thaw of heavy snow and torrential rains. Times, Sunday Times
The day from about 1 p.m. was dark and wet and in fact a half hour before start, torrential rain threatened to mar the occasion.
Heavy earth-moving equipment sent in to clear the mudflows are failing to make headway as torrential rains continue to fall in the region.
He had to deal with sweltering humidity, torrential rainstorms, former Khmer Rouge warlords and mischievous monkeys and elephants.
This followed torrential rainfalls that affected most parts of the county.
Torrential rains yesterday collapsed roads and triggered landslides in central Taiwan but failed to relieve the drought in the north.
It is caused, they maintain, by sewers unable to cope with torrential downpours. Times, Sunday Times
It will move eastwards across Britain today and tomorrow, bringing more torrential rain and powerful winds. Times, Sunday Times
This was the most attractive man she'd ever seen in her life, and she just met him under a pine tree seeking shelter from a torrential downpour.
It will move eastwards across Britain today and tomorrow, bringing more torrential rain and powerful winds. Times, Sunday Times
Chinese authorities have attributed Friday's tragedy to torrential rains that caused the area's worst flash flood and mudslide in 200 years.

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