Sample Sentences for
deluge
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    The deluge continues as if the Gamemakers are intent on washing us all away.  (source)
    deluge = overwhelming rain
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    He went on and on until there was such a deluge of words I could hardly keep up.†  (source)
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    There was nothing but dry paint, difficult breath, and the deluge of abuse from Rosa.†  (source)
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    We were waked up some time in the middle of the night by a clap of thunder and a deluge of rain.†  (source)
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    In fact, so disconcerted by this notion became the Count that when Idlehour was deluged by rainstorms that September, giant black moths harrowed his dreams.†  (source)
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    Normally I could not have abided such information; and yet what was happening to me was so quick and sure, like one of the late autumn deluges that were sweeping in on us more and more often, the red-brown water suddenly ankle-deep, seeping in everywhere, and in the last minutes before I would go to her again I was practically trembling.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.†  (source)
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    Only the Potomac River bore the scars of the deluge.†  (source)
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    He was deluged with letters, some of which were from monarchists, Garibaldini, and military officers who questioned his patriotism.†  (source)
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    In autumn, on the other hand, we have deluges of mud.†  (source)
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    The water accumulated and washed deeper down, and the roar of the pool thus formed spread into the night as the head and chief among other noises of the kind created by the deluging rain.†  (source)
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    Maybe it was just the ferocity of the deluge.†  (source)
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    For three days Perrault and Francois threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers.†  (source)
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