Just as from the end of Leman rushes the Rhône, so from the Zürich end of its lake rushes in a torrential dash the green Limmat.
In its intensity rain varies all the way from the finest drizzle or the sprinkle of occasional drops up to the torrential downpours often known as "cloud-bursts.
This blast of wind, lightning, hail and torrential rain are all agencies of destruction in severe thunderstorms.
The nights were of the blackest, and the organization the most inefficient; with the result that six hours were wasted nightly in the most torrential rain.
As the night drew on it got blacker and blacker, while the rain increased to a torrential downpour.
Our raid had been fixed for June 19th, but owing to torrential rain it was decided to postpone it.
They talked oframi, which I thought meant oars; but rami, had I known it, meant the separate branches or streams whereby these torrential rivers of Italy flow through their arid beds.
His route thenceforth was by Dijon, Les Rousses, and the Col de la Faucille, whence he reached Geneva, after crossing the Swiss frontier, in a torrential rain.
Then in a moment, as by word of command, silence, sudden and impressive, reigns where just before that torrential babel had raged.
It certainly required plenty of zeal to volunteer for a boating expedition on a tropical river in such torrential rains, but the men called upon for the service responded with alacrity.
Torrential rains were falling, while the atmosphere was too close to wear oilskins without the greatest discomfort.
Comparing their own measurements in torrential streams in Switzerland with those of Darcy and Bazin, Ganguillet and Kutter found that the four classes of coefficients proposed by Darcy and Bazin were insufficient to cover all cases.
But while many streams of a torrential character change the condition of their bed often and to a large extent, in others the changes are comparatively small and not easily observed.
The flat plain stretching for miles on every side had deep grooves cut into it by water flowing down from the mountain-side during the torrential rains and eventually losing themselves in the sand.
The yellow rocks at the side bore marks of having been subjected to the corrosive action of water, which must occasionally fill this gully to a great height during torrential rains.
Evident signs could be noticed that during the torrential storms of the rainy season this bed must occasionally carry large volumes of water.
In the spring there are torrential rains, and also towards the end of the autumn, but the months of May, June, October and November are quite pleasant.
The journey was terrible, owing to torrential rains and snowstorms.
The enemy command, in view of thetorrential condition of the Piave had decided to retire.
These were months of torrentialand persistent rain.
Crossing the garden I came upon Tommy the Mate, who told me there had been a terrific thunderstorm during the night, with torrential rain, which had torn up all the foreign plants in his flower-beds.
Torrential rain fell on the car and came dripping in from the juncture of the landaulette roof.
There was also another reason for abandoning it and that was the hot, enervating, pernicious atmosphere, and the torrential rains, which were the causes of malaria and malignant fevers from which the district was never exempt.
They will go to enkindle the pure flame of love in the breast of the savage, at the same time teaching him the arts of peace in the immense solitudes which are fertilized by the Arauca, and the Meta and the Casanare and the torrential Upia.
They look like very old parts of the same range worn down to stumps by the disintegrating forces of the torrentialrain and sun, and the dense forest growing on them.
Throughout and over all is the torrential downpour of the wet-season rain, coming down night and day with its dull roar.
We tried to keep pace with the storm, expecting a torrential rain at every moment, which would render the trails impassable.
Drought in early summer or torrential storms in harvest will effectually ruin the crops, but when once a good crop is raised the profit is very satisfactory.
In the morning we found that the farmhouse had been nearly flooded by the torrential rain, a stream of water having poured through the house.
During the afternoon of her death, a violent thunderstorm, with torrential rain, fell upon us--the worst of many storms we had experienced.
Thus, in the youth of such a land mass as we have mentioned, torrential streams flowing down the steep mountain sides deliver to the adjacent sea their heavy loads of coarse waste, and thick offshore deposits of sand and gravel (Fig.
The sand of many beaches, derived from the rocks of adjacent cliffs or brought in by torrential streams from neighboring highlands, is dark with grains of a number of minerals softer than quartz.
We derive a much truer picture of Victor Hugo's antagonist from Disraeli's "Endymion" than we do from the poet's torrential invectives.
Personally I love to regard all the stories of Balzac as one immense novel--of some forty volumes--dealing with the torrential life of the human race itself as it roars and eddies in its huge turbulency with France and Paris for a background.
Stripped to its bones by torrential rains of the last season, the ground heaved and tossed in pits and hummocks.
But as no one of these rivers was navigable or served to fertilize the lands along its torrential course, none has much importance in the history of the province.
They have also been regarded as the result of torrential action.
But if at this season we have a succession of thunderstorms and torrential rains, if the sky is overcast at night and white exhalations rise from the plain, the mornings are bright and wonderfully calm.
On the morning of the 14th the work was resumed in a torrential tropic downpour.
This terrace bears every mark of having been deposited by a torrential stream which came down the valley during the closing period of the great Ice age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torrential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
