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Forecasters warned that heavy rain was about to drench the event's closing ceremony -- only to realise the radar had picked up a cloud of Bogongs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Showers that don’t drench you or flood the bathroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

One hundred areas of the UK face flooding as heavy downpours drench parts of the country, while the Met Office has issued yellow rain warnings for some areas.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

Instead, he wandered out into the rain and sat still, letting the water drench his body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2024

He’d like to be outside with Petey in the rain, one of those warm summer rains that was just hard enough to drench you, but not hard enough to chase you indoors.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

The alternative, Red Ambience, drenches the car in a fathomless shade of garnet metallic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Trains and flights have been cancelled in Japan as one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country in decades drenches cities in its path.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024

Sunlight drenches one of the organization’s water trucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

Birria bathes the meat in broth, tortas ahogadas dips or drenches the sandwich, and carne en su jugo, as the name implies, serves meat in its own juices.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023

It’s hardly September but the fall drenches have already begun.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Videos on social media showed cars trying drive down waterlogged roads as rain poured down drenched pavements.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Soldiers drenched T-shirts in ice water and draped them over antennas that were on the fritz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Now, “Luna” is tender and otherworldly, drenched in the high drama and glamour that San Cha so loves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Shirtless and drenched in sweat on his treadmill, Lula runs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

She pulls a ring of keys from her pocket and impatiently unlocks three separate locks in order to access the room that is drenched in bright afternoon sun.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

El Niño, the climate pattern of ocean waters warming up in the central and eastern Pacific, does not guarantee drenching storms in California, but it tilts the chances in their favor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

As other parts of the UK prepared for the fourth heatwave of the summer, the Commonwealth Games athletics competition was given a drenching in Glasgow.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Flooding struck the popular holiday island of Ibiza on Saturday for the second time in two weeks as the storm moved east and north into the Mediterranean after drenching southeastern Spain.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025

We had nothing which had escaped drenching: no victuals, no bedding.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson