Example Sentences

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For days, meteors had been showering the game.

From The New Yorker • May 14, 2018

I explained that I was a little alarmed by all the negative reviews that had been showering down upon Apple’s unilaterally imposed replacement for the Google Maps app.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2012

Mr. Harrell, a Transocean employee, testified previously that he had been showering at the time of the explosion.

From New York Times • May 29, 2010

For weeks she had been showering Sterling with gifts and public displays of affection, and had had her friends trying to dig up better jobs for him.

From Time Magazine Archive

He, or some of his followers had been showering the Air Force with photos of flying saucers.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.