Sentence examples for to downpour from inspiring English sources

The rain was going from drizzle to downpour and as I peeped out of my weather-beaten tent to survey the landscape at the Reading Festival, the last thing I wanted was another cereal bar.

Coca-Cola had been in Italy in a modest way since 1927, but it was only in 1949, when the drink's impact on the country seemed likely to change from dew to downpour, that the Communists and their cohorts, the latter including many vintners, counterattacked on a broad front.

We then raced to the Banks, hoping to get to the Lower East Side park before it started to downpour and found ourselves facing several feet of chain-link fences guarding what would be the city's next public park (thanks to Steve).

The sky darkened, the wind came up, drizzle turned to downpour.

Trees, for example, react to downpours with a spurt of growth.

BOSTON — Even as afternoon faded to dusk Saturday and downpours gave way to puffy clouds and back to downpours again, two constants remained for the Yankees.

The basics for surviving this heat and variable rainfall — from weeks of nothing to downpours — are pretty simple.

Verlander, the Detroit Tigers No. 11 pitcher, has seen plenty of precipitation lately, from drizzle to downpours, and soon after he took the mound in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, the skies opened for him once again.

Ben Stimson, the retail director at Waitrose, said: "The weather during a week in which the UK's warmest September day since 1911 was recorded helped drive a good performance last week before the sunshine turned to downpours.

On March 9th they were back up to 12.9%, thanks to the downpours and to a raft of emergency measures, including fines to punish overuse.

During their trek around Bethpage Black, they faced the spectrum of sogginess, from leaden skies but no rain to light rain to a downpour.