How to Use torrential in a Sentence

torrential

adjective
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  • Instead, they and the friends who joined them are trapped by torrential rain.
    — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 6 July 2024
  • The chopper flew back up there and picked him up in a torrential downpour.
    — Svati Kirsten Narula, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2022
  • That means during the heaviest of storms, L.A. can have torrential rains that are in a rush to get out to sea.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • During the past week, torrential rains have caused flooding in 11 of Venezuela’s 23 states.
    — Andry RincÓn, ajc, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Lucky for us the torrential rains held off until the party ended.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In recent years the area has been hit by torrential rains and hurricane-force winds.
    — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The flood threat will be greatest Sunday evening and overnight, as torrential rain pours across the I-95 corridor.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Inland, torrential rains and high winds can cause flash flooding and pull down power lines and trees and tear up roofs.
    — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the flooding issues were more recent; others stemmed from the torrential downpours that hit the city in August 2021.
    — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Harmon has a knack for torrential monologues, and Zien has a doozy to deliver.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Sky News Residents tell us that one family climbed up to the school from their house to stay safe from the torrential rainfall of Storm Daniel.
    — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Storms could again be slow movers and could contain torrential downpours.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In March of 1908, a torrential rain overpowered the system.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • The torrential rains that poured over the state of Rio Grande do Sul in recent days were well above normal for this time of year, according to experts.
    — Ana Ionova, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • The two courses were going to present enough of a challenge for the 264-person field to begin with, but Sunday was washed out by torrential rain.
    — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The storms also pummeled much of Nebraska with torrential rain, high winds and large hail.
    — CBS News, 21 May 2024
  • That run was also charged to Gil before a torrential downpour halted the game for one hour and 27 minutes.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • Before a decision could be made, the heavens released a torrential rain while bolts of lightning ripped through the black sky.
    — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The one where the coolest man on the planet obliterated a 12-minute set amid a torrential downpour from a stage designed to look like his love symbol.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Then, in late December, the torrential rains arrived - and just kept coming.
    — Pranshu Verma, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Then, in late December, the torrential rains arrived — and just kept coming.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The storm hit as torrential rain, high winds and large hail pummeled neighboring states as a new round of storms threatened more of the Midwest on Tuesday.
    — Colleen Slevin, The Denver Post, 21 May 2024
  • Severe winds and torrential rains hammered Connecticut and most of the rest of the Northeast after a recent heat wave.
    — Dr. Nick Goltz, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2024
  • The torrential downpours spurred thousands of California and rough-skinned newts to emerge from their burrows and set out in search of a lake, stream, pond or puddle to breed in.
    — Annie Roth Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Heating of the Indian Ocean contributed to torrential rainfall in the south.
    — Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Many schools in the Houston area are closed Monday as the city begins to dry out after getting walloped by torrential rains over the weekend.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • Landslides and floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed over 100 people in Nepal since mid-June.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 July 2024
  • Experts have said the disaster, brought on by the deadly mix of torrential rain and poor management of the dams — or the complete lack of them — could have been prevented.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Days of torrential rain in the desert caught organizers flat-footed and the consequences lasted for days.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The torrential downpour came after much of California had been plagued by drought last year.
    — Deborah Acosta, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2023

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