torrential
adjective
pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
torrentially
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a word derived from
torrential.
Example Sentences
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It was raining torrentially for much that day, which makes for harder work than usual.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2019
He wrote ceaselessly, torrentially, and as he churned away he easily became vatic, windy, merely reckless where he had once been adventurous.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 16, 2019
You can’t have a lot of body horror in a kid’s movie, but you can have a topiary griffin who torrentially evacuates dead leaves across the backyard in a beautiful, disgusting arc.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2018
On a random Tuesday night in the NBA, the black cloud hovering over LeBron's head got infinitely darker, and then it began to torrentially downpour.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 7, 2018
The water does not distribute itself uniformly among these, but seeks out channels through which it pours torrentially.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
