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How to use downpour in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Downpour means a heavy fall of rain. Example: “They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.”

Examples of downpour by meaning

nounA heavy fall of rain.

  • They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.
  • I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14

verbTo pour down; rain heavily.

  • Bank-notes fluttered down and lay about in all directions, relays of sovereigns rolled away like so much dross, bonds and scrip for thousands and tens of thousands clogged the downpouring stream of jewellery and unset gems.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
  • It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211

More sentences with downpour

  • The torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land.From the entry account for
  • His soddenness after being caught in the downpour argued against going out until he had dried out.From the entry soddenness
  • As the downpour began, I joined the other shelterers under the tree.From the entry shelterer
  • There was a torrential downpour and we were all soaked.From the entry torrential
  • There was a sudden downpour this afternoon.From the entry this afternoon
  • The downpour led to some dramatic images of stranded motorists and geysers bursting through manhole covers.2022 September 12, Patty Wetli, “Chicago Dries Out From Intense Deluge. ‘We Don’t See Rainfall Rates That High’”, in WTTW, archived from…. From the entry dropshaft
  • The weather is clement, though there was a downpour yesterday and I was obliged to take precautions.1984, Edna O'Brien, “The Bachelor”, in A Fanatic Heart, New York: Plume, page 66. From the entry clement
  • Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same.1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, Book 1, Ch.4, at p.34. From the entry potato
  • The downpour was terrific, and the lightning a blaze of light, intense, with thousands of flashes on the wagon-sheet.2012, J. Evetts Haley, Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman. From the entry wagon-sheet
  • It is more likely that the heavy downpour had washed away the surrounding soil to reveal the fossils.2007 February 12, “Fossils: myths, mystery and magic”, in Belfast Telegraph, page 1. From the entry devil's finger
  • With a good blinding snowfall, or a pelting downpour of cats and dogs, I might have hoped for a respite.1901, Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood), Johnny Ludlow: sixth series, page 361. From the entry cats and dogs
  • They could be quickly strapped into the jump-seats with seatbelts, rather than roping them into the bed of the truck in a downpour.2010, Kurt Lewis Allen, The Service, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry rope into
  • Many times, he would arrive soaking wet as the Florida skies had opened up in a sudden downpour of cats and dogs.2010, Helen Howington, All in a Lifetime, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry cats and dogs
  • THE WIND SHIFTED COURSE a few degrees and the downpouring of Jacksons and Grants and Franklins blew due east, pelting the storefronts on Market Street.2004, Peter Plate, chapter 24, in Fogtown: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, →ISBN, pages 158 and 160. From the entry grant
  • The train landed us on a shedless shelterless platform and we had to run through the downpour across the line to the shelter.1997, Helen J. Simpson, The day the trains came, page 136. From the entry shedless

Meaning of downpour

  1. noun A heavy fall of rain.
  2. verb To pour down; rain heavily.

Full definition of downpour

Questions about downpour in a sentence

How do you use downpour in a sentence?
Downpour is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.”
What is a short sentence with downpour?
“There was a sudden downpour this afternoon.”
What does downpour mean?
Downpour means a heavy fall of rain.

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