20 example sentences using torrential.
Torrential used in a sentence
Torrential in a sentence as an adjective
We have blizzards here, torrential downpour rain, all kinds of weather that might make it hard. Still, nothing.
Rainy season brings torrential downpours for an hour or so twice a day -- which is always welcomed.
If they could solve the driving in a busy urban environment in torrential rain I would be more impressed.
I have driven in snow and ice, torrential downpours, and heavy traffic in the last year. I haven't driven with Traction Control on since Mercedes almost killed me in 2006.
I once accidentally did that somehow and came out the next morning to find my windows down and completely soaked inside thanks to the torrential rain all night long. Took a while to dry the Golf out...
They get a lot of the big squall-line fronts with heavy/torrential downpours in storm cells, while the mountains act as an extra lifting mechanism. With that combo, you get much more lightning overall.
I've been caught outside biking home in thunderstorms with torrential downpours and I got home with the contents of my bag completely dry. If you get one of the two biggest models, opt for the secret compartment.
You’re not wrong and the trend is toward more of these torrential-to-flood events. The story is simple: the infrastructure we have doesn’t handle multiple inches of rain in a very short period of time.
I'd also like more aggressive variable speed limits instead of "60 all the time, between bone-dry land and torrential rain"
Assuming that the Martian canyons and valleys that appear to be carved out by water were actually carved out by water, they were absolutely torrential floods - of a scale unlike ever seen on Earth. Now?
Mud, mountains, many streams and rivers, thick jungle and often torrential rain [1]. Nowadays there are a lot of migrants that cross the Darien Gap. This should tell you something about how truly epsperate they are [2].
Days and days of torrential rain prevented any meaningful charging. The ability to store more power economically would be so very handy.
Had a full day hiking from Italy to Switzerland in torrential rain, too stubborn to stop at the start, then unable to find a flat spot to pitch a tent later. Obviously traffic and road conditions on a skateboard are one thing, but I think you'd be hard pressed to die from rain itself otherwise.
Here's the thing, though: there is a significant difference in the velocity of the water rolling off the roof during a gentle rain and that of the streams pouring off during a torrential downpour. Not a week after our gutters were installed, we experienced one of the aforementioned downpours.
> In July 2021, another occurrence of tofu-dreg construction happened in Zhengzhou in Henan province where the entire city was put at a standstill due to torrential rains and flooding. The city was referred to as a “sponge city” because of how vulnerable the drainage system was.
If you cycle to/from work, you'll soon get used to having an applet showing you the weather all along the route and judging when to make a dash to avoid the torrential rain and gale-force winds as you cross a narrow sea bridge.
It is unknown how the receiver of this code would communicate their intent to fulfill the request, leading historians to ponder if sending such a signal might result in a torrential flood of the beverage.
This leak though, despite the location which should have made it almost instantly obvious, happens almost within 5 minutes of a torrential downpour that lasted better than an hour. That, plus my unwillingness to believe the previous owners had routed plumbing above everyone's heads, meant we didn't get that taken care of quite as quickly as we might have.
Yes; of an entirely different nature than hurricanes, torrential rains etc. Unfortunately the best locations on earth for truly enormous high-efficiency solar are equatorial.
Mud up to our axles and water pourin' down like we’d angered the gods," Nancy's voice takes over, now steeped in the greens and browns of the jungle, a torrential rain replacing the arid breeze, "And just when we thought it couldn’t get no worse, we heard it over the rain – the distinct chatter of AKs. We were about to have company, and they weren't there to share umbrellas." Your eyebrows shoot up in intrigue, and you lean in a little closer, the bar around you fading into the shadows of a rain-soaked jungle on the edge of chaos.
Torrential definitions
relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent; "torrential erosion"; "torrential adaptations seen in some aquatic forms"
resembling a torrent in force and abundance; "torrential applause"; "torrential abuse"; "the torrential facility and fecundity characteristic of his style"- Winthrop Sargeant
pouring in abundance; "torrential rains"