Example Sentences

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At the end of the century, destructive Sandy-like floods will deluge the city every 30 years -- a fivefold increase compared to the present climate.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

His lawyers, with plenty of experience of explaining away clenbuterol cases, will deluge the court with reasons to blame steak, not the athlete who says he ate it.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2011

Next year 100,000 youths of 18 will deluge French universities with one-third more students than are enrolled now.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is there anything more wonderful in nature than the rich moisture with which an English autumn night will deluge every spray and every leaf and every grass-blade?

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

Before we go to the police let us consider all the possibilities, for they will deluge us with questions.

From A Black Adonis by Porter, Linn Boyd