How to Use torrential in a Sentence

torrential

adjective

• The rain caused torrential flooding.
• Then the torrential rains hit last week, and the field at UAB was done.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 May 2021
• With the torrential rains, the brook quickly swelled to 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
• The goat was pulled out of the pipe around 1 p.m. Wednesday, just as the skies opened up in a torrential downpour.
  — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2021
• There is rain, torrential downpours that come down out of the blue.
  — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021
• Instead, they and the friends who joined them are trapped by torrential rain.
  — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 6 July 2024
• The chopper flew back up there and picked him up in a torrential downpour.
  — Svati Kirsten Narula, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2022
• On top of it all — it’s the middle of Ethiopia’s torrential rainy season.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2021
• This year, while the West Coast burned, the East was met with torrential, record-breaking levels of rain.
  — Yussef Cole, Wired, 18 Dec. 2021
• That means during the heaviest of storms, L.A. can have torrential rains that are in a rush to get out to sea.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• During the past week, torrential rains have caused flooding in 11 of Venezuela’s 23 states.
  — Andry RincÓn, ajc, 9 Oct. 2022
• As if the pandemic wasn’t bad enough for us all, torrential rain brought flooding to the area in late March.
  — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2020
• Over the weekend, the state saw torrential downpours and heavy winds with gusts as high as 40 mph in some areas.
  — Callie Patteson, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Sep. 2024
• Haiti's death toll from earthquake soars to 1,400 as Grace dumps torrential rains.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2021
• Lucky for us the torrential rains held off until the party ended.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2023
• Runoff from the torrential rains rushed over the land, flooding some homes and damaging roads.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021
• In recent years the area has been hit by torrential rains and hurricane-force winds.
  — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• The most recent flooding, which followed torrential rain last week, was the worst yet.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• The 2021 spring game, Wommack’s first as Jaguars head coach, was called off at halftime due to torrential rain and lightning.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 16 Apr. 2022
• The flood threat will be greatest Sunday evening and overnight, as torrential rain pours across the I-95 corridor.
  — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Inland, torrential rains and high winds can cause flash flooding and pull down power lines and trees and tear up roofs.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• The bomb cyclone in the Northeast is dropping torrential rain in at least 11 states on Wednesday.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
• The night before the battle, torrential rains turned the fields around Waterloo into a sea of mud.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
• The torrential rains of a mother’s weeping will never be done.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• The sky was beautifully clear one moment and torrential rains poured down the next.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 June 2021
• Some of the flooding issues were more recent; others stemmed from the torrential downpours that hit the city in August 2021.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2023
• Then, a week later, just as the area was beginning to dry out, more torrential rain caused the waterways to swell again.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 6 July 2022
• The hurricane dumped as much as 30 inches of torrential rainfall on the heart of Dixie and pummeled the coast with fierce winds.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2021
• Racegoers in their silk and satin finest happily became drenched in the torrential downpour, as the show and the race must go on.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 19 May 2022
• Sliding to his knees in relentless torrential rain, the winger was understandably mobbed by his teammates both on the field and off the bench, as the travelling hoards went wild in the away end.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025