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

It begins, all of a sudden, to rain torrentially; and through the white storm of falling drops nothing is discernible.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio