Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Aprista Party members were deluging the Government with telegrams demanding clemency.

From Time Magazine Archive

By week's end, the frightened foundries were deluging WAA with protests.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Optic, Oliver

There had been no rains in the East, such as were deluging the whole Ohio valley.

From Campmates A Story of the Plains by Munroe, Kirk

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 Saxo, Grammaticus