How to Use torrential in a Sentence

torrential

adjective
  • The rain caused torrential flooding.
  • There is rain, torrential downpours that come down out of the blue.
    — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • There could be some briefly torrential rain and street flooding.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • And as the torrential rains fell, the young city became a quagmire.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2020
  • Warmer air can hold on to more moisture, which in turn can lead to more torrential rainfall.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 Aug. 2018
  • After a week or more of torrential rains, flooding, and grey skies, spring sprung.
    — Michael Hamtil, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The very humid air could lead to torrential rainfall.
    — Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
  • But the actors really did slog it out in the fake torrential rains for two weeks.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2019
  • And he's seen in the same torrential scene with Rey and Kylo.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Lucky for us the torrential rains held off until the party ended.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Then the torrential rains hit last week, and the field at UAB was done.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 May 2021
  • The weather was cool and overcast, and bursts of torrential rain made the streets slippery.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Runoff from the torrential rains rushed over the land, flooding some homes and damaging roads.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021
  • From torrential rain to damaging straight-line winds to the back-to-back overnight snow we've been hit with this week.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The light rain soon turned into torrential downpour.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The most recent flooding, which followed torrential rain last week, was the worst yet.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The torrential rains of a mother’s weeping will never be done.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • 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 first time was in 2010 when torrential and prolonged rains forced it to close.
    — Franklin Briceno, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
  • With the torrential rains, the brook quickly swelled to 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The sky was beautifully clear one moment and torrential rains poured down the next.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 June 2021
  • To handle torrential rains, direct water away from your garden with dry creek beds and swales.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Hansard recalls that five or six songs into his set, a torrential downpour began.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That front acted like the West’s mountains, forcing storms to form and dump torrential rain.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The torrential rain—in some places, a year’s worth in a few hours—caused the river to breach its banks throughout its southern course.
    — Brendan Hoffman, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
  • The evening hours will bring a complex of storms into the area with strong winds and torrential rainfall as the main concerns.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • As if the pandemic wasn’t bad enough for us all, torrential rain brought flooding to the area in late March.
    — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2020

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