How to Use torrential in a Sentence

torrential

adjective

• The rain caused torrential flooding.
• 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
• 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
• 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 torrential rains of a mother’s weeping will never be done.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 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
• 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
• Harmon has a knack for torrential monologues, and Zien has a doozy to deliver.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• Sky News Residents tell us that one family climbed up to the school from their house to stay safe from the torrential rainfall of Storm Daniel.
  — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Storms could again be slow movers and could contain torrential downpours.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 26 Aug. 2022
• In March of 1908, a torrential rain overpowered the system.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2024
• For nearly four months out of the year, Arizona faces torrential downpours of rain that mix with dust and whip through the air at aggressive speeds.
  — Athena Ankrah, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
• The torrential rains that poured over the state of Rio Grande do Sul in recent days were well above normal for this time of year, according to experts.
  — Ana Ionova, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• The two courses were going to present enough of a challenge for the 264-person field to begin with, but Sunday was washed out by torrential rain.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2022
• The Indian monsoon failed, followed by late, torrential rains that triggered widespread flooding in the Ganges basin.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025