It's lashing down

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

It's lashing down with rain outside so I'm glad we've got time to enjoy the superb spread and look out over the city – so much to do there, so little time.

But when it's war against the Irish and it's lashing down with rain, you need to be more flexible.

"It was lashing down and the only way I could write was to have some protection, so that's why I had it," he said.

All of it was lashed down under a ripped and fluttering tarp, held in by aching bungee cords and retired jump ropes.

This just in from the Guardian's David Hopps at the ground: "it's lashing it down".

I believe I can beat anyone, so I can beat Tyson Fury". "It's been lashing down with rain all day in York so far.

The rain was lashing down as we headed back but it didn't dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of the local touts.

Today the sun has gone, the rain is lashing down and a gale is blowing.

As I write this the rain is lashing down outside my window and beyond that – ugh!

The rain was lashing down, the Petronas Towers loomed over me, a monorail passed overhead, while vast glowing video billboards played out adverts I didn't understand.

"If the rain is lashing down, take shelter at Toad Hole cottage, a traditional home for marsh men and their families that's now preserved as a museum," she adds.