Sentence examples for downpour away from inspiring English sources

England v South Africa feels an untimely downpour away from a largely forgettable stodge-fest but the Barbarians against Fiji is certain to put smiles on faces.

Now, stone retaining walls hold soil and plants in place, and an ingenious drainage system designed by Vollmer Associates of New York channels torrential downpours away from the pond.

One hard downpour drove away many people at once.

In 1999, Hallmark began their version with a torrential downpour, washing away the last of the animal regime a clear analogy for the still recent fall of the Soviet Union.

When rain finally comes, it falls in biblical downpours, washing away plants and hardening the clay earth into cement.

Particularly heavy falls are reported from the southern counties and the Midlands, where a torrential downpour is washing away the huge snowdrifts piled up during yesterday's storm.

Heavy downpours often wash away the soils on bare ground or deplete them of their nutrients.

It is the rainy season in the North, and the North Koreans told him that almost daily downpours had washed away roads and bridges and made access to the crash site, a five-hour drive from Pyongyang, impossible.

The Yankees and the Detroit Tigers played one and a half innings at the Stadium in Game 1 of the American League division series before downpours struck, washing away an intriguing matchup of aces between C. C. Sabathia and Justin Verlander.

Since April, torrential downpours have washed away newly planted seed, drowned sweet corn and peas before they could be plucked, and transformed acre after acre of fertile soil into lifeless muck.

Rain, especially heavy downpours can wash away the cement paste leaving nothing but gravel and sand on the concrete's surface.