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Meanings of soaker in English
Synonyms
Examples for "torrent"
Examples for "torrent"
1
Wordplay update: And thanks for the torrent of suggested fun-sounding negative words.
2
The bed of the torrent served him for the first few miles.
3
His words, however, were drowned in a torrent of bravos and catcalls.
4
The water is a roaring torrent in the bottom of the gully.
5
Joe: Resolute will almost certainly be available on torrent-tracking sites like Mininova.
1
The deluge of information is expected to increase efficiency and lower prices.
2
The program has struggled under a deluge of thousands of unprocessed cases.
3
Blistering heat can turn to a freezing deluge in minutes, Sillerud said.
4
The number of malware attacks on point-of-sale systems is becoming a deluge.
5
We ignored a deluge of irrepressible questions I could not answer now.
1
Mr Goff said the water system was coping despite the latest downpour.
2
However, at least some of the downpour went where it was needed.
3
They sat in awkward silence, listening to the downpour and the wind.
4
A brief downpour of rain drenched the place and left her untouched.
5
An hour ago we had thunder and lightning, and a torrential downpour.
1
Will you stand there and pelter with me, man?
2
Peering up through the skylight, she could see the raindrops that had started to pelter the glass.
3
Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
4
Turn left, following the riverside path through woodland to reach Pelter Bridge.
5
It halted near the railroad, and Jesse Pelter sprang to the ground.
1
The ship was lowered about a hundred feet away from the waterspout.
2
By this flood, we may judge of the waterspout's power of suction.
3
He's just been wrastlin' with a waterspout and he's some wore out.
4
A spectacular waterspout swept across a Belgian beach causing damage along the shore.
5
The rain fell like a waterspout, and the throng immediately fled for shelter.
1
Once black clouds gathered in the distance, to pour out a cloudburst.
2
Torrential rains were poured upon the hills from a cloudburst exceptionally savage.
3
It was a cloudburst- adownpoursuch as Hiram had seldom experienced before.
4
The whole land seemed to have become saturated and overflowed by the cloudburst.
5
Whitney's cloudburst of gentle sobs echoed in the room behind me.
Usage of soaker in English
1
I'd like ter t'ump him a soaker on de jaw meself.
2
We just need a soaker to really help things out.
3
A nice steady soaker that chased everyone off the beach.
4
For a large garden, you may need elaborate soaker hoses, sprinklers, and drip irrigation pipes.
5
The sun's a good pimple, an honest soaker, he has a cellar at your Antipodes.
6
I'll do a day's work agen you or any fat young soaker of your age.
7
I know it; but I found it impossible to hit him a soaker with my left.
8
He produced a super-soaker and proceeded to spray a jet of beer directly into my gob.
9
Sometimes, when he was taking his Saturday night soaker he still got kind of a funny feeling.
10
But when she drew focus on those blood soaker-uppers, she gave Cord a happy look which Cord returned.
11
The rain had picked up again and was coming down with the boring relentlessness of an all-day soaker.
12
I crawled out of bed and pulled the curtain aside, not pleased at the sight of an all-day soaker.
13
If these channels are obstructed or inadequate, we find our land falling into the ways of an old soaker.
14
That is the soaker's friend.
15
One day he received a "soaker" of a snowball in his left ear while hurrying to the gymnasium.
16
In the primary test, the testing coordinator gradually increased rainfall from a steady Smokies shower to a full-on Olympics soaker.
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