14 Verbs to Use for the Word downpour

It was eleven o'clock before a quick veering of the wind brought a downpour so violent that what had gone before seemed little better than a rather weak rehearsal.

Then was heard in the puffs of air, the hissing of the distant but approaching downpour: more lightningthen some large heavy drops plashed on the roof, and it was raining cats and dogs.

It was quite in her line to arrange a downpour like this on a market eve.

The very first day while he was trying it there suddenly came a downpour of rain.

It is not ideal for a sick man to spend the hottest hours of the day stretched on the boxes in the bottom of a small open dugout, under the well-nigh intolerable heat of the torrid sun of the mid-tropics, varied by blinding, drenching downpours of rain; but I could not be sufficiently grateful for the chance.

At the same instant the rain shut in over the hills again; a fresher wind sprang up and drove the downpour into his face.

It was a change to see something that really seemed to enjoy the incessant downpour and to enter into the spirit of it.

"We can never goin this downpour," declared Betty.

XXVIII November 25, 1916 It is raining,a cold and steady downpour.

Industrialism was born and inland factories sent forward, over the recently-installed railroads, a downpour of products that the fleets were transporting to all the Mediterranean towns.

And with celestial weapons in their hands, they completely surrounded the son of Pritha and rained on him from all sides a perfect shower of shafts, like clouds showering on the mountain breast a heavy downpour of rain.

It kept on after that, he supposed, a steady downpour, but could not with certainty say, being securely deep in sleep.

He made a depot camp on a creek which he called the Warburton, and while on an excursion from this camp he had the singular experience of riding all day through heavy rain and camping at night without water, the sandy soil having quickly absorbed the downpour.

The trees seemed to stretch out their leaves to drink in the moisture, the parched flowers welcomed the downpour; and still the Duchess of Hazlewood stood out on the terrace, so deeply engrossed in her thoughts that she never heeded the rain.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  downpour