How to Use deluge in a Sentence

deluge

1 of 2 noun

• The deluge caused severe mudslides.
• The deluge is thought to have killed more than 1,500 people.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• The area is threatened by the deluge pouring onto the burn scars left by the 2022 Land fire.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• But most are still pending as the Navy has struggled to process the deluge of claims.
  — Michael Kosnar, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• But the water is still flowing in, and with each new inch, more things are lost to the deluge.
  — Ketan Joshi, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• One older man tried to flee the deluge by climbing a tree.
  — Samya Kullab, Evgeniy Maloletka, Sam McNeil, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
• The deluge wiped out a 2.5-inch rainfall deficit in San Diego, and greatly tamped down the threat of wildfires.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• Watson moved out to the area about 20 years ago, when the area got a similar deluge of snow.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• In the longer view, though, the state’s water problems have come just as often from deluge as from drought.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• The deluge seemed somehow fitting on a night that rapidly devolved for the Red Sox.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• But then the heavens opened, and an epic deluge flooded Fenway, leading to the halt of play in the bottom of the fourth inning.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• But a brief digital ad for Bud Light caused some fans of the brand to send a deluge of anti-trans hate her way.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
• Amid the deluge of Swift news coverage in the past few months, Turk’s last Instagram post was in March.
  — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
• Vermont saw a deluge of rain, its second 100-year storm in roughly a decade.
  — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
• The Altman saga is still unfolding, and every day has brought a deluge of news.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Outside, a deluge is in progress, and hundreds of fans have been already standing in the rain for hours, waiting for doors to open.
  — David Feliba, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• But with the skies filled once again with missiles and bombs, the deluge of casualties had resumed.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The dampness from Monday’s deluge was just an inch lower.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• With the deluge of funding now starting to reach cities and states nationwide, Biden and his aides hit the road this past week to promote their work.
  — Tony Romm The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2023
• The deluge is on-track to top last year’s 22 million passports issued, the State Department says.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• Her oldest sister Kathy Hilton kicked off the deluge of special posts with a special picture of the duo singing their hearts out.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• It’s said that rain on your wedding day is good luck, but what about when a deluge of rain forces your venue to close days before your nuptials?
  — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• This year, after a deluge of winter rain and snow, water rolled down the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers, filling up the site for the first time since it had been restored.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• London has seen a deluge of hotel openings over the last few years—many of which are state-of-the-art, yes, but also a little soulless.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
• And if the deluge is accompanied by heavy winds, whitetails will hole up on the lee side of hills or dense, wind-blocking cover.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• For the second flight, SpaceX installed a water deluge system to its pad, which dampened the blast, and made upgrades to the rocket’s engines.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Around the same time, Jennifer found gashes in the side of her car and began receiving a deluge of threatening phone calls.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 6 June 2023
• Wines estimates that the lake doubled in size after the deluge earlier this month.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• But spending decisions by the Trump team and a deluge of Democratic giving inverted that by the fall.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Their progression has only been hastened by the deluge of happy hair system recipients that have started to flood our social media feeds.
  — John Ortved, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024

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deluge

2 of 2 verb

• Heavy rains deluged the region.
• The past day has found Houston deluged in more than 20 inches of rain.
  — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 27 Aug. 2017
• Once again she was deluged with hundreds and hundreds of songs — and dozens and dozens were just so clever.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• Just don't deluge it, which will wash the seed around, resulting in patchy growth.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018
• The Sprouse twins, now 31, were deluged with reminders on Thursday.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• Officials were deluged with the aftermath of the storm.
  — Scott Bronstein, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• Locals who can remember still talk about the one that deluged the town in 1972.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• As the story goes, the first wave of pounding rain deluged Kansas City early, at about 1 a.m. on Sept. 12.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
• As soon as the law went into effect, the board was deluged with new requests for hearings.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2018
• In recent days the region has been deluged with heavy rains and landslides in some areas.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• The storm ravaged the island on September 20th, and then continued to deluge it with rain the next day.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Torrential rain will deluge parts of the Southeast this week as swaths of the Northwest will get walloped by feet of snow.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
• The office was deluged with calls from people wanting to take Baby Jan in.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 15 Aug. 2019
• The threat heightens for coastal ranges and inland hills, which could get deluged with 3 to 6 inches of rain, the weather service said.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• In the Sanford area, large numbers of homes and businesses were deluged with water and mud.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2020
• Some said they had been deluged with harassing phone calls.
  — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• As her posts spread, other climbers deluged eGrips with complaints.
  — Joe Purtell, Outside Online, 30 July 2019
• The company was deluged with angry phone calls and faxes, the Mercury News wrote.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Gilmore said he was deluged with death threats, hate mail and online hacking attempts.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• Meyer said the newspaper has been deluged with offers of help.
  — John Hanna and Margery A. Beck, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
• Watch or not, you will be deluged by postmortems, hot takes, tweets, TV segments and panel debates.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
• The agency said the southeastern Tokai region could be deluged by close to 40 inches of rain in a 24-hour period.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• There was a major flood in 1913, the biggest weather event in Ohio history, when a series of heavy storms deluged all Ohio's cities.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The bombings come at a time when Austin is deluged by tens of thousands of visitors for the South by Southwest festival.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• In a coastal town in Washington, climate change has a high school junior worried about the floods that keep deluging his school.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The storm is still deluging parts of coastal North Carolina as its center slowly trudges over the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• One of the only children along that section of the route, she was deluged with candy, necklaces and other trinkets thrown from floats.
  — Zach Despart, Houston Chronicle, 4 July 2018
• Along the way, Lee could deluge some communities with a combination of rain, storm surge and high tide.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• That day, employees deluged the site with 193 reviews, more than the company had received in the entire month up to that point.
  — Andrea Fuller, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
• Fleeing cars deluged the road leading away from the camp as young militants streamed the other way, toward a roundabout, and assembled just out of sight of the Israeli military vehicles blocking the entrance to the state hospital down the street.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024