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an overwhelming amount — especially of quickly moving water- She screamed a torrent of abuse.
torrent = an overwhelming amount
- The dam broke and the houses were swept away in the torrent.
- Since she posted that tweet, she's receive a torrent of abuse.
- We were flooded by torrential rains.
- I summed my side up with rare serenity in, 'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.'Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- The rain, which was falling in torrents, added to the uproar.Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Pathway's a bog, and the road's a torrent.W. W. Jacobs -- The Monkey's Paw
- Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- She had wanted help, and here was help; it had come in a rushing torrent.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- The driver, who is way too young to have even a permit, whips the wheel back and forth to avoid the torrent of drones exploding all around us.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- She had wanted help, and here was help; it had come in a rushing torrent.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Her words tumble over each other in a torrent of excitement: "You look beautiful!Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- Then she flew over a river, a thrusting torrent that cut through the mountains.Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
- As the torrent passed through his fingers it turned dark green.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- Ink spurted out of the diary in torrents, streaming over Harry's hands, flooding the floor.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Thunder rumbled, and the rain began to pour, in thick sheets and torrents.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- The gunslinger wondered what he would feel if that inky sky should split open and let in a torrent of light.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- The road was a torrent of muddy snowwater.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- Blood pours out of his head wound in great torrents, drenching her roses and his clothing and spilling onto the floor of the vehicle.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- It was only five o'clock of a mid-October day, but a storm had come up in the afternoon, bringing black clouds, a cold wind and torrents of rain.Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
torrent = an overwhelming amount of rapidly moving water
torrent = overwhelming amount
torrential = overwhelming
torrent = overwhelming amount
torrents = overwhelming amounts
torrent = flooded by rapidly moving water
torrent = overwhelming amount
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