Sentence examples for monsoon downpour from inspiring English sources

The plastic sheets that had been stretched in front of the stage at Delhi's Ram Lila parade ground did little to keep out the monsoon downpour.

Sri Lanka will keep its long-running state of emergency, and reforms to the voting system will make it harder for smaller parties.As a thunderstorm unleashes an early monsoon downpour, the brother suggests that a ruler's worth should be judged by a traditional standard.

The taxi pulled out into a late monsoon downpour, its windscreen wipers feebly slapping at the sheet of water.

Durga's fatal fever is attributed to a monsoon downpour in the film, but is unexplained in the novel.

On a recent afternoon, a cool interlude between monsoon downpours, Sathy took me for a walk through Molasur.

Every day, scores of villagers follow a tortuous mountain track to an unmanned border post into India, battling monsoon downpours, knee-deep mud and malaria.

She had written a conclusion in which, among monsoon downpours, a landslide sweeps Biju to his death – but then changed her mind, thinking this "too dark".

"We have had two-and-a-half times the average rainfall for April, we have had steady showers in May and then monsoon downpours in June," said a spokesman for Thames Water, the UK's largest water company with 8.8 million customers in London and the Thames Valley area.

But already this week, a pre-monsoon downpour leaked into hundreds of shelters.The government blames the UN and aid groups for shoddy camp-building.

A planned five-hour hike through Anaga country park, an ancient cloud forest of rare ferns and laurels, was curtailed by an unusually monsoon-like downpour.

Last summer, Chipchase sat through a monsoon-season downpour inside the one-room home of a shoe salesman and his family, who live in the sprawling Dharavi slum of Mumbai.