How to Use downpour in a Sentence

downpour

noun
  • 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
  • But not the then-88-year-old Bennett, who sang on through the downpour.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021
  • 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
  • Most of the rain — just over an inch — came in an epic downpour between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The downpour could also bring the snowpack in the Sierra to 4,000 feet.
    — Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The morning of the wedding arrived—and so did a downpour of rain.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
  • 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 Browns offense didn’t fare well in the downpour at practice.
    — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2020
  • A few years ago, a black man ran after me in a downpour for two city blocks.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 3 June 2020
  • The slide was reported on the morning of March 3 after days of downpours in the area.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The goat was pulled out of the pipe around 1 p.m. Wednesday, just as the skies opened up in a torrential downpour.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The most memorable of these was the show which Prince headlined amid a downpour.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2025
  • 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 Browns’ first padded practice of training camp took place in a steady downpour for most of the 90 minutes, as seen in the video above.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The downpour, both reflected, may have been the best part of their wedding.
    — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The boot felt light from the start, per our tester, who ended up running a half mile in their pair to get out of a downpour.
    — The Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2020
  • But in the dark and downpour, my capable husband was not able to start it.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • But in Jane Austen’s original novel, the scene occurs inside, empty of any steady downpours or rolling hills in the background.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Severe weather activity will quickly wind down just before midnight, but the flash flooding threat will linger around through the overnight with any of the heavier downpours that set up.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 May 2025

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