deluge
noun
a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
were deluging
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past progressiveof deluge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By week's end, the frightened foundries were deluging WAA with protests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aprista Party members were deluging the Government with telegrams demanding clemency.
From Time Magazine Archive
There had been no rains in the East, such as were deluging the whole Ohio valley.
From Campmates A Story of the Plains by Kirk Munroe
Some days passed, and they heard the thunder of a storm brawling in the distance, as if it were deluging the rocks.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
With this apparatus the boys were deluging the decks with water, one of them holding the pipe, and half a dozen scrubbing the planks with long-handled brushes.
From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Oliver Optic
