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Definition

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.

torrent = an overwhelming amount of rapidly moving water

Since she posted that tweet, she's receive a torrent of abuse.

torrent = overwhelming amount

We were flooded by torrential rains.

torrential = overwhelming

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

torrent = overwhelming amount

The rain, which was falling in torrents, added to the uproar.
Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water

torrents = overwhelming amounts

Pathway's a bog, and the road's a torrent.
W. W. Jacobs -- The Monkey's Paw

torrent = flooded by rapidly moving water

Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

torrent = overwhelming amount

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!

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