Sentence examples for swelling torrent from inspiring English sources

In 1927, as floodwaters threatened New Orleans, a self-appointed committee of businessmen persuaded the government to dynamite a downstream levee and release the pressure of the swelling torrent.

In closeup, it shows trickling streams and rain on cotton plants swelling into torrents; cigar-toting politicians gesticulate reassuringly, and the wealthy making dignified retreats while the impoverished cling to the remains of shacks.

The equivalent of one month's rain fell overnight, swelling the Mandulog river to a destructive torrent, which crushed hundreds of families' homes.

CALDWELL, Ohio — The energy boom has swept into the rural counties of the upper Ohio River Valley, producing a torrent of investment in mineral leasing that is jolting the economies of small towns and swelling the bank accounts of some working-class families.

In "South," as in the literal torrent of strokes pouring downward in "Rain," Joan pushed her painting to the edge of chaos before it resolved in swelling clarity.

No swelling.

The swelling has gone.

Public outrage was swelling.

Obviously there's swelling.

He had some swelling.

"It's just swelling.