10 example sentences using deluge.
Deluge used in a sentence
Deluge in a sentence as a noun
Hopefully this is not too much of a deluge of information :P.
I hope he reads my message because that's the kind of feedback he needs, not the deluge of "oh you're so smart for a kid!
It's equally easy for HN to be dragged down in a comment deluge as it is for comments to simply become worse.
True, but you can also witness the opposite on Twitter: Claims of sexism met with a deluge of trolls threatening to rape the claimant.
Do you actually know that there's an "unrelenting deluge that makes life miserable" for a typical woman in tech?
Deluge in a sentence as a verb
While I have certainly had my share of clueless recruiters contact me through LinkedIn, I have also had a good number of decent contacts that either didn't pan out or which I just wasn't interested in. I don't get nearly the deluge of contacts that some people here say they get, though.
They've gotten sick of the deluge that accompanies RSS feeds and the lack of discrimination that sometimes occurs on Twitter and they trust me to curate that info for them.
Counter-points:* When you're a women on a forum/chat/irc/etc, you are pretty much guaranteed to get a deluge of messages/comments/etc from guys, especially socially awkward guys that would never think of attempting such a thing in person.
"For example, in the tunnels the deluge systems or the smoke extraction systems which we may use in an emergency, we can't actually operate those as well, which is why we've had to take the dramatic measure of actually closing the tunnels.
How do you know that you're not exaggerating and it is not, just to pick a possibility, a regrettable annoyance that we'd be much better without, but not an "unrelenting deluge that makes life miserable"?>We look around and we wonder why there are so few women in tech.
Deluge definitions
an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
See also: flood inundation torrent
a heavy rain
See also: downpour cloudburst waterspout torrent pelter soaker
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
See also: flood inundation alluvion
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
charge someone with too many tasks
See also: overwhelm