Sentence examples for had drenched from inspiring English sources

A sudden cloudburst had drenched the desert, though, and the class was canceled.

Although most of Indonesia is in the midst of its annual dry season, the floods came after days of heavy rains that had drenched the area.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle had drenched Florida with up to 11 inches of rain and blacked out half a million utility customers.

A similar view will be taken today by many of those betting shop punters who never forswore their fealty to "King Kieren", even when the police had drenched his name in suspicion.

Before it was over, Farage's flotilla of angry trawlermen campaigning for leave had drenched Geldof's boat with hoses and angrily boarded it midstream to the dismay of the river authorities.

Photograph: Anthony Harvey/PA Xan Brooks, Guardian Unlimited Film editor Sin City screened at Cannes last night, after a thunderstorm had drenched the streets and ominous clouds swept in off the Mediterranean.

Record rainfall levels have drenched Houston over the past four days.

The tear gas that has drenched Athens – a new variety, imported from Israel – clears.

Of course rain might have drenched this first day in July or August or September.

Some photographers were huddled under an awning in the Place Vendôme, trying to stay out of the rain that has drenched Paris.

Might the water that has drenched the courts the last two days, with more rain forecast, speed up the surface and satisfy some of the complaints?