How to Use downpour in a Sentence

downpour

noun
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  • There was a heavy downpour at the time of the crash, police said.
    — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The huge rain fly has kept me dry through heavy downpours.
    — Scott Canon, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • That’s not to say the machine can’t cope with a downpour.
    — Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Most of the rain — just over an inch — came in an epic downpour between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
    — CBS News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • There is nothing like a steady downpour in the dark to put a frog in a festive frame of mind.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The slide was reported on the morning of March 3 after days of downpours in the area.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The goat was pulled out of the pipe around 1 p.m. Wednesday, just as the skies opened up in a torrential downpour.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • The downpour marked the latest such flood that has occurred over the past few weeks across the United States.
    — Annabelle Timsit and Zach Rosenthal, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The afternoon has the best chance for showers, storms and downpours.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Storms brought high winds, lightning, heavy downpours to the region, with the risk of flooding and hail.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2024
  • Our soupy air mass promotes the chance for some hit-or-miss downpours into the evening.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • The downpour pummeled the town’s flat concrete roofs and wide green orchards.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • That may continue to be the case, although the whole area runs the chance of a quick downpour into this evening.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
  • His father lies supine on the sodden ground ahead, dead and bloated in the downpour.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • The downpour, both reflected, may have been the best part of their wedding.
    — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But in the dark and downpour, my capable husband was not able to start it.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • What lessons were learned by folks who didn’t have to contend with downpours during the Wave’s season-and-a-third on the site?
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The downpour led to a flash flood that destroyed homes and caused damage to other structures in the area.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Getting caught in a downpour is unpleasant in the first place.
    — Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The Friday downpour caused the second flooding event in the park within a week.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
  • And then the rain began, at first just a trickle, but soon a drenching downpour.
    — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The countdown is on to Hangout Fest 2023 along with all the sand, sun, inevitable downpours and more that comes with it.
    — Tandra Smith | [email protected], al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • They also can be swept away in the downpour, since ants, like most insects, can float.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
  • The two of them are alone, visiting a temple amid a downpour.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The game began in light rain, but showers turned to a steady downpour and the field became a quagmire.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Stores give people places to walk to, to meet up with friends, and to escape from a sudden downpour.
    — Michael Waters, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
  • So far anything that moves through appears to want to be brief, but a downpour can’t be ruled out.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • So in theory, the downpour that hit Green Bay should have worked into the hands of the host Packers.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The storm is expected to clear from the far northeast early Tuesday, though risks of further downpours and strong winds remain across the south of the UK until Wednesday.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Image While those warnings did not anticipate the full extent of the threat, the downpour’s disastrous scope quickly became clear.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024

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