How to Use torrent in a Sentence
torrent
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This week, the case has been a torrent of briefs and motions.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
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The falls can be a trickle or a torrent depending on the time of year.
—Peter Krouse, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
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Raging torrents can scour the riverbeds where salmon lay their eggs.
—Catrin Einhorn Max Whittaker, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
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In a matters of hours, what was about a foot of rain became a torrent of water.
—Susannah George, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
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The only sound came from a nearby stream, which turns into a torrent each spring when the snow melts.
—Jim Zarroli, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
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Flashbacks to Barry Sanders would have come in a torrent.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
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The outfit prompted a torrent of tongue-in-cheek questions online: Did the Pope have a new stylist?
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
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Strong's opening kickoff set the tone, and the Saints unleashed a torrent of points thanks to special teams play.
—Chip Souza, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2022
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The new rules won’t apply to large buildings, which churn out the most powerful torrents of trash.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
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The police replied with a torrent of gunfire, killing Taylor.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
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One of the biggest DDoS defense firms in the world could no longer handle the scale of the data torrent barraging his site.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
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Then Libs of Tiktok picked up the video, and the torrent of negative comments began.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
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The final rule will likely expose the SEC to a torrent of legal challenges.
—Stone Washington, National Review, 1 Mar. 2024
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That points to the question of what, if anything, to do about the torrent of copyright infringement lawsuits?
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
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Every spring, the mighty Kaweah River practically roars through the tiny town of Three Rivers with a torrent of fresh snowmelt.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2022
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In one area of Cathedral City, torrents of mud trapped residents in their homes and required the rescue of 46 people.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
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New data came to the scientific community in a torrent over the next few days and weeks.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
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The storm had come on quickly, engulfing us in a torrent of rain and blurring everything around us.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2023
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Moments after a major dam in a Ukrainian war zone gave way, wild torrents cascaded over the jagged remains of the top.
—Dmitriy Khavin, New York Times, 16 June 2023
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In the ensuing years, the trickle of customers grew into a torrent and the menu choices and staff grew to accommodate them.
—Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
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That would be Koy, who faced a torrent of criticism for his hosting performance at the Golden Globes on Jan. 7.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Beauty signs the contract with Colony Records, which sets off a torrent of new issues between her and her family.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2022
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The campaign produced a torrent of data, which took more than a year for a contractor to stitch together.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 June 2023
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When rains came strangely hard and fast, the vast network of dams slowed a torrent of water raging down the mountain, protecting his hay crop.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
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The resulting torrent stream fell into the bowels of an active volcano.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2022
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On San Marcos Creek, a typically dry tributary, a 5-year-old boy was swept from a car and into the torrent.
—Jeremy Miller, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023
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In addition, a torrent of at least 16 anti-aircraft missiles also fell on the city.
—Justin Klawans, The Week, 9 Oct. 2022
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This torrent of nonsense didn’t snow many people who knew anything about finance and weren’t angling for a piece of his action, like Bloomberg’s Matt Levine.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
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There, a torrent of German incendiary bombs fell on the village.
—Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
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This triggered a torrent of transphobic comments from the usual suspects, both in the comments of Mulvaney’s posts and in some far-right or conservative-leaning press outlets.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
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