All 4 Uses of
torrent
in
All the Light We Cannot See
- The big gun detonates a third time, and glass shatters somewhere close by, and torrents of soot rattle down the chimney, and the walls of the hotel toll like a struck bell.†
p. 8.9torrents = overwhelming amounts
- There is a sputter, then a torrent of bright music.†
p. 83.4 *
- A one-armed bunk master sets forth rules in a belligerent torrent.†
p. 137.2
- Torrents of text conversations, tides of cell conversations, of television programs, of e-mail, vast networks of fiber and wire interlaced above and beneath the city, passing through buildings, arcing between transmitters in Metro tunnels, between antennas atop buildings, from lampposts with cellular transmitters in them, commercials for Carrefour and Evian and prebaked toaster pastries flashing into space and back to earth again, I'm going to be late and Maybe we should get reservations?†
p. 529.1torrents = overwhelming amounts
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water