How to Use torrent in a Sentence

torrent

noun
  • The rain came down in torrents.
  • The storm turned the stream into a raging torrent.
  • The ocean becomes a torrent of rolling hills.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • With each goal, a torrent of emotion was let loose.
    — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • This week, the case has been a torrent of briefs and motions.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Raging torrents can scour the riverbeds where salmon lay their eggs.
    — Catrin Einhorn Max Whittaker, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • After that came a torrent of stories from the garage.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2026
  • Since then, the trickle has become a torrent.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The falls can be a trickle or a torrent depending on the time of year.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Millions of dollars in aid have flowed from the pond, along with torrents of words for and against it.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • What followed was a torrent of money.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In a matters of hours, what was about a foot of rain became a torrent of water.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The only sound came from a nearby stream, which turns into a torrent each spring when the snow melts.
    — Jim Zarroli, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • But Bourne’s essay and ideas could not stem a tide that was becoming a torrent.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • All new parents know that precious moments with your firstborn come in dribs and drabs and then in a torrent.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The new rules won’t apply to large buildings, which churn out the most powerful torrents of trash.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The police replied with a torrent of gunfire, killing Taylor.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The prices triggered a torrent of disbelief in the comments.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There was no priming my heart for the kind of torrent my chest became as Lusaka misted over.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Our clear, 30-foot-wide river had risen to a raging torrent that filled the floodplain from side to side.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • Lightning made the sky as bright as day, the thunder was a continuous crash, and torrents of rain poured down.
    — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Eighty lines, one for each rainy season a composer might hope to enjoy in his lifetime, all washed away in a torrent.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 13 June 2026
  • But if so, that original dream did not last long in the face of the torrent of money that soon started flooding his way.
    — Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The storm had come on quickly, engulfing us in a torrent of rain and blurring everything around us.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Strong's opening kickoff set the tone, and the Saints unleashed a torrent of points thanks to special teams play.
    — Chip Souza, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2022
  • This time of year is akin to the summer for movie studios as publishers unleash a torrent of video games to the public.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That lightbulb moment sparked a torrent of recording which led to a bidding war between labels.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Needless to say, directing their actors through this torrent of deep feeling was its own challenge.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Eight hours of work yield only eight hours of data, a trickle against the torrent that powered language models.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That points to the question of what, if anything, to do about the torrent of copyright infringement lawsuits?
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023

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