deluge
Example Sentences
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In this distinctly unpredictable time, Freyne’s film offers the simple comfort of a worry-free afterlife, one less thing to fret about among the deluge of global strife.
From Salon
Within hours, the Bom was flooded with a deluge of complaints.
From BBC
They seemed flat, uniform in texture, and without the dark brooding billows that often threaten or promise imminent deluge.
From Washington Post
The storm deluged Puerto Rico and left most of the island without power after it made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.
From New York Times
Insurance companies and their reinsurer underwriters worry the dire and wide-ranging consequences for business operations and basic services of such an event would set off a deluge of claims, Africa Re's Tennick said.
From Reuters
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