Example Sentences

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Mirroring the trials of many Koreans in this period, the movie is — even by local standards — drenchingly melodramatic.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015

Usually the annual rains boil up out of the Arabian Sea in June, cross the Indian coastline around Bombay, then move drenchingly inland, reviving thirsty lands and building up water supplies for the coming year.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is new is that it is openly, drenchingly emotional, a meditation that darkens into melancholy and isolation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here he waited while the rain poured down drenchingly, gradually putting out the fires that here had not the fierceness that had driven them in from the westward.

From The Auto Boys' Mystery by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

The bright line in the west moved very slowly upwards, and the rain continued to fall, although less drenchingly than before.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison