How to Use downpour in a Sentence

downpour

noun

• But in the dark and downpour, my capable husband was not able to start it.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Less than an hour before the game started the skies were alight with lightning and a heavy downpour deluged the field.
  — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• Even in a downpour, Kole Mathison was lights out under the lights.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2021
• The forecast for Friday and most of Saturday: A steady downpour.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2021
• There wasn't much fanfare leading up the Purdue-Minnesota game except that it was played in a downpour.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
• Slye’s next game could include some of the most challenging kicks of his career, as the weather forecast for Sunday night calls for a steady downpour.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021
• In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain on Oct. 29 swept away everything in their path.
  — Teresa Medrano, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
• With darkness falling amid a downpour in the late afternoon, speakers were addressing throngs of participants.
  — Matthew Dalton, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2021
• While New Delhi received heavy downpour, unusual for this time of the year, there has been massive damage to human lives in the southern state of Kerala.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
• In July, a deadly downpour fell on the city of Zhengzhou, the heaviest rains ever recorded in the country with nearly 8 inches of rain falling in one hour.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
• The video, directed by Robert Rodriguez, has both women dancing through a sci-fi downpour of water and knives — not ignoring their pain, but thriving, free of inner conflict.
  — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
• There was a heavy downpour at the time of the crash, police said.
  — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2023
• The huge rain fly has kept me dry through heavy downpours.
  — Scott Canon, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• That’s not to say the machine can’t cope with a downpour.
  — Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2022
• Most of the rain — just over an inch — came in an epic downpour between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
  — CBS News, 6 Aug. 2022
• There is nothing like a steady downpour in the dark to put a frog in a festive frame of mind.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
• The slide was reported on the morning of March 3 after days of downpours in the area.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The downpour marked the latest such flood that has occurred over the past few weeks across the United States.
  — Annabelle Timsit and Zach Rosenthal, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2022
• The afternoon has the best chance for showers, storms and downpours.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
• Storms brought high winds, lightning, heavy downpours to the region, with the risk of flooding and hail.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2024
• Our soupy air mass promotes the chance for some hit-or-miss downpours into the evening.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• The downpour pummeled the town’s flat concrete roofs and wide green orchards.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• That may continue to be the case, although the whole area runs the chance of a quick downpour into this evening.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
• His father lies supine on the sodden ground ahead, dead and bloated in the downpour.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• The downpour, both reflected, may have been the best part of their wedding.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• What lessons were learned by folks who didn’t have to contend with downpours during the Wave’s season-and-a-third on the site?
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• The downpour led to a flash flood that destroyed homes and caused damage to other structures in the area.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2022
• Getting caught in a downpour is unpleasant in the first place.
  — Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2022
• The Friday downpour caused the second flooding event in the park within a week.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• And then the rain began, at first just a trickle, but soon a drenching downpour.
  — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024