Used in a Sentence

downpour

How to use downpour in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for downpour.

Editorial note

Across the street in a downpour or 10 degrees or 110 degrees works for me.

Examples13
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a heavy rain

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of downpour gathered in one view.

noun

a heavy rain

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for downpour.

Example sentences

1

Across the street in a downpour or 10 degrees or 110 degrees works for me.

2

Kind of like needing an app to tell you it's raining when you're standing in a downpour.

3

If the drains got clogged it could turn into a death trap pretty fast in a heavy downpour.

4

Instead of a brief downpour, you get a week where it sprinkles on and off and it's cloudy the whole time.

5

And yes, it's a touchscreen that's utterly useless in a downpour or when swimming.

6

Water resistant, but I wouldn't advise using them in a downpour.

7

Putting a wet blanket on someone who had gotten sick from a downpour is not homeopathy.

8

More likely the species uses simple statistics to survive: enough eggs laid in enough places will survive the harshest downpour.

9

Then I realized the only reason I was happy was that the park was completely empty: it was 10 o'clock at night and a downpour had just happened.

10

Please don't generalize about app sales revenues across Android and iOS because it's like comparing raindrops to a downpour.

11

I have an Experia Go after my GN died in a rainstorm...I'd love to have another Nexus device, but I'd want one that could live in my pockets during an unexpected downpour.

12

Us dog walkers get pretty tired of getting wet all the time, and trying to dry off a wet dog insistent on shaking his soggy hair all over you is extra motivation to make that last 100 yard sprint home when you see a downpour coming...

13

The only time in several years that I walked into a retail electronics store was when my bluetooth earbud got drenched in a sudden downpour and wouldn't come back to life while I was traveling far away from home, and I kinda sorta needed it for a business conference call, so I paid 2x amazon price at best buy for a replacement and was fairly happy to do so.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use downpour in a sentence?

Across the street in a downpour or 10 degrees or 110 degrees works for me.

What does downpour mean?

a heavy rain

What part of speech is downpour?

downpour is commonly used as noun.