had drenched
- past perfect of drench.
Example Sentences
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Storm Elin had drenched and battered much of the country by Saturday afternoon, while Storm Fergus was expected to have a similar impact on Sunday.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023
On Parliament Hill, the sleeting rain that had drenched Ottawa much of the day turned to snow, and defiant protesters remained in the streets, some of them dancing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
What I was remembering, though, was a story in that same newspaper ten years earlier, after a series of rainstorms had drenched the town—warm South Pacific storms meteorologists referred to as the Pineapple Express.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
A storm had drenched the Verdugo mountains, a rugged, rustic outpost of Los Angeles, and unleashed a massive mudslide, forcing them to flee to an improvised evacuation centre in the San Fernando valley.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2018
She had been forced to keep him waiting, and a chilly September rain had drenched him to the skin.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
