All 4 Uses of
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Catch-22
- Sweat gushed from his neck in torrents and poured down over his chest and waist with the feeling of warm slime.†
Chpt 15 *
- He wanted to pour out to her in torrents of self-pity all his unbearable loneliness and despair and warn her never to leave the boric acid or the aspirin in reach of the children or to cross a street against the traffic light.†
Chpt 25
- Words gushed from the chaplain in a nervous torrent.†
Chpt 36
- Tears were streaming in single torrents from her flashing, hate-filled eyes as she struggled against him fiercely in an irrational frenzy of maddened might, snarling and cursing savagely and screaming 'Bruto!†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(torrent) an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water