All 13 Uses of
torrent
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- There the Katrin ferry transferred men, horses, and carriage to Brooklyn, that great New York annex located on the left bank of the East River, and in a few minutes we arrived at the wharf next to which the Abraham Lincoln was vomiting torrents of black smoke from its two funnels.†
Chpt 1torrents = overwhelming amounts
- The cowls over the companionways would vomit a torrent of sailors and officers.†
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- A few moments later, the frigate's two funnels vomited torrents of black smoke, and its deck quaked from the trembling of its boilers.†
Chpt 1torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Ventilators shot torrents of air over the braziers.†
Chpt 1
- The electric light suddenly went out, and two enormous waterspouts crashed onto the deck of the frigate, racing like a torrent from stem to stern, toppling crewmen, breaking spare masts and yardarms from their lashings.†
Chpt 1
- The Nautilus's pumps have prodigious strength, as you must have noticed when their waterspouts swept like a torrent over the Abraham Lincoln.†
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- Our engines tried to offer resistance by churning the waves with propeller in reverse, but the Nautilus went with the torrent, as swift as an arrow.†
Chpt 2
- In less than twenty minutes, swept along by the torrent, the Nautilus had just cleared the Isthmus of Suez.†
Chpt 2
- A torrent had carried us from one sea to the other.†
Chpt 2
- Fifty feet below its peak, amid a shower of stones and slag, a wide crater vomited torrents of lava that were dispersed in fiery cascades into the heart of the liquid mass.†
Chpt 2torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Swift currents swept away all this diffuse gas, and torrents of lava slid to the foot of the mountain, like the disgorgings of a Mt. Vesuvius over the city limits of a second Torre del Greco.†
Chpt 2
- Like a torrent the sea was rushing into our retreat, and since we definitely were not mollusks, we had to clear out.†
Chpt 2
- Near five o'clock a torrential rain fell, but it lulled neither wind nor sea.†
Chpt 2torrential = overwhelming
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water