Sentence examples for torrent was from inspiring English sources

During Dickinson's final two decades, her poetic torrent was reduced to a trickle.

"I could see him tense up, expecting the prima donna torrent was coming," Mr. Richter said.

Witnesses said the torrent was about 13 feet high and carried with it trees, lampposts and mounds of debris.

So the idea of stripping them naked and making them cross a raging torrent was very appealing to us".

Because previous floods particularly the Great Flood of 1927 had catalyzed the construction of numerous levees and spillways to contain and channel floodwaters, the path of the torrent was to a certain extent predictable and controllable.

Because of the darkness, and because the roaring torrent was loud enough to drown out the sound of cattle bellowing in distress, it was impossible to tell if they were dead or alive.

Fallon pauses, but a torrent is about to be unleashed.

Today, that torrent is just a trickle while the coffee infrastructure lays idle.

Trying to dam the image torrent is probably misguided and certainly Sisyphean.

The old platitude torrent is not addressed to any pressing question.

We cannot hear every word, but the torrent is somehow completely and appallingly understandable.