Then we made a brief stand and tried to stem the torrent.

But it was impossible to stem the torrent of human forms.

For twelve years Gallienus attempted to stem the torrent thus freed.

Toni, very pale, tried to stem the torrent of her words.

I tried to stem the torrent of their strange, absorption, but I could not.

Hush! Selwyn tried ineffectually to stem the torrent of complaint.

Hamilcar had in vain attempted to stem the torrent.

Any attempt to stem the torrent of the wretched man's speech would have been futile.

Now, shudderingly wishful to stem the torrent of blasphemies, innocent though they were, he ventured cautiously:

It is clear, therefore, that something more effectual than universal manhood suffrage is needed to stem the torrent.

Archie and the chiefs, with the few mounted men among the retainers, strove in vain to stem the torrent.

Sir John Barnard, who endeavoured to stem the torrent of the former, is grown almost as unpopular as Byng.

He cursed everything in nature and beyond it, and no amount of clouts on the head would stem the torrent.

At last Gillian managed to stem the torrent of garrulity and interposed a question concerning the telegram she had sent.

How difficult is it, when immorality has been encouraged by royal authority, to turn the tide or to stem the torrent.

He swung a couple of the excited sailors out of his way and managed to stem the torrent of Coke's futile curses.