Adjective : torrential rains. From Dictionary.com.
It’s difficult to imagine now, but Haiti was once deeply forested; but 98 percent of the tree cover is gone, leaving eroded hillsides with gullies down which the rain torrentially washes whatever soil is left. From Wordnik.com. [Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
She cried then, torrentially, and he lay down with her. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' Is A Rare Treat: Great Characters, Real Heartbreak & Credible Inspiration] Reference
His right leg came out of the hole, and just then the rain descended torrentially again. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
It faded, and abruptly the image of Powell-Powerful-Protective-Paternal rushed at him, torrentially destructive. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference
It was 400 miles back home and the rain fell torrentially for about 300 of them, though the sun was out and the skies were clear. From Wordnik.com. [Midlife milestones] Reference
The rain continued to fall torrentially; the thunder muttered almost continually, but in the distance; again and again the lightning flashed. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
One of the odd habits of the pill bug is stampeding across my brothers 'floor in the middle of the night when it's been raining torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie] Reference
It had rained torrentially two days before, and although the road was dry and dusty, there were sometimes mud puddles at the edge of the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Rain had started to fall — not torrentially but with steady determination, and according to the meteorologist on the radio it would rain all day. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]
On a torrentially rainy Sunday, I watch an assembly happen, in a classroom that seems to be in the process of being slowly smothered by vast, outsized plants. From Wordnik.com. [Kidnapped, Raped, Married: The Extraordinary Rebellion of Ethiopia's Abducted Wives] Reference
It rains torrentially like a good thunderstorm in Alabama, sudden and surprising, except that the surprising thing to us is it continues at that rate for hours on end. From Wordnik.com. [A Beautiful View] Reference
As if Wednesday's record-breaking heat weren't enough, a water main break in Potomac created a geyser that was at once torrentially wasteful and oddly majestic, adding an exclamation point to recent infrastructure woes -- and offering an incredible rafting opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Water main break in Potomac forces restrictions in Rockville] Reference
Information wants to flow and it wants to flow freely and torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [UX Magazine - Comments] Reference
Upon finishing the inauguration, the rain again began to fall torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
Thus torrentially he delivered himself, and swept her a little off her feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
De Martino, 40, wears sunglasses, even though it's raining torrentially outside. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He talked volubly, torrentially, like a man of teeming mind in the highest spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
Many windows were paneless, and in swept the wind howling, and the rain pouring torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1] Reference
It begins, all of a sudden, to rain torrentially; and through the white storm of falling drops nothing is discernible. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
The water does not distribute itself uniformly among these, but seeks out channels through which it pours torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
The climb is steep but at the top, high in the clouds, it is ethereal and moody - the distant valley below peek-a-boos through the drifting mist and the waterfalls drop torrentially fast. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
It's eight in the morning on a Sunday, and outside the window of our kitchen, I see that the rain that has been torrentially pouring here in the Triad has subsided, at least for the next few hours. From Wordnik.com. [GoTriad Archives] Reference
Love's symptoms are familiar enough: a drifting mooniness in thought and behavior, the mad conceit that the entire universe has rolled itself up into the person of the beloved, a conviction that no one on earth has ever felt so torrentially about a fellow creature before. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Jaude and take the Rue des Gras; but more than that she could not tell him; the rest of the town was an entanglement, a maze of sloping lanes and boulevards; a town of black lava ever dipping downward, where the rain of the thunderstorms swept by torrentially amidst formidable flashes of lightning. From Wordnik.com. [His Masterpiece] Reference
The girl explained, torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
He ranted torrentially, but in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
She was tactful, torrentially anecdotal. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
It poured torrentially all the day through. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
The rain was now falling less torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
The walk will be wet but not torrentially so. From Wordnik.com. [Blogtimore, Hon] Reference
We talked torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Armfelt spoke torrentially. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
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