Sentence examples for was being showered from inspiring English sources

A few songs more, and Tawiah was being showered with applause.

All the while, she shook the hands of well-wishers and appeared to blush a bit because of all the attention that was being showered on her not only by a curious public but by her fellow senators.

"When my firstborn enters this world," Prescott says late in the book, "I'm sure I'll say it's 'the happiest day of my life,' but will I really be happier than I was being showered with beer in the middle of a party with 300 people screaming at the top of their lungs around me... Probably not.

Three thousand miles from ground zero, having breathed in none of the fetid smoke, knowing no one among the casualties nor even -- as yet -- knowing anyone who did, I had barely assimilated what had occurred, and here I was being showered with sympathy.

Just eight days ago we were being told that Cheryl Cole, fresh off the plane to LA, had already become such hot property stateside that she'd caught the eye of Angelina Jolie and was being showered with more film roles than she knew what to do with.

THE National Health Service (NHS) is being showered with cash, the biggest increase in its history.

Not only were the servants partying, but they were being showered with presents.

It sounds as if Oguchi Onyewu is being showered with derision when he takes the soccer field.

One minute, director Rupert Goold is being showered with praise for his production of Lucy Prebble's Enron at London's Royal Court.

Government safety agencies equivalent to OSHA were nowhere to be seen in the truck yards, and workers, many of whom were children of the owners, were being showered with sparks from their grinders and cutting torches.

The government is cagey about next year's gross deficit, saying only that there will be "a significant reduction".Just why so many NHS trusts lurched into deficit when they were being showered with money remains a matter of controversy.