How to Use deluge in a Sentence

deluge

1 of 2 noun
Definition of delugenext
Synonyms for delugenext
  • The deluge caused severe mudslides.
  • The deluge is thought to have killed more than 1,500 people.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The area is threatened by the deluge pouring onto the burn scars left by the 2022 Land fire.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But most are still pending as the Navy has struggled to process the deluge of claims.
    — Michael Kosnar, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the water is still flowing in, and with each new inch, more things are lost to the deluge.
    — Ketan Joshi, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One older man tried to flee the deluge by climbing a tree.
    — Samya Kullab, Evgeniy Maloletka, Sam McNeil, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
  • The deluge wiped out a 2.5-inch rainfall deficit in San Diego, and greatly tamped down the threat of wildfires.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Watson moved out to the area about 20 years ago, when the area got a similar deluge of snow.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In the longer view, though, the state’s water problems have come just as often from deluge as from drought.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The deluge seemed somehow fitting on a night that rapidly devolved for the Red Sox.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • But then the heavens opened, and an epic deluge flooded Fenway, leading to the halt of play in the bottom of the fourth inning.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • But a brief digital ad for Bud Light caused some fans of the brand to send a deluge of anti-trans hate her way.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Amid the deluge of Swift news coverage in the past few months, Turk’s last Instagram post was in March.
    — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Vermont saw a deluge of rain, its second 100-year storm in roughly a decade.
    — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
  • The Altman saga is still unfolding, and every day has brought a deluge of news.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Outside, a deluge is in progress, and hundreds of fans have been already standing in the rain for hours, waiting for doors to open.
    — David Feliba, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But with the skies filled once again with missiles and bombs, the deluge of casualties had resumed.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The dampness from Monday’s deluge was just an inch lower.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • With the deluge of funding now starting to reach cities and states nationwide, Biden and his aides hit the road this past week to promote their work.
    — Tony Romm The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2023
  • The deluge is on-track to top last year’s 22 million passports issued, the State Department says.
    — Time, 3 July 2023
  • Her oldest sister Kathy Hilton kicked off the deluge of special posts with a special picture of the duo singing their hearts out.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • It’s said that rain on your wedding day is good luck, but what about when a deluge of rain forces your venue to close days before your nuptials?
    — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • This year, after a deluge of winter rain and snow, water rolled down the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers, filling up the site for the first time since it had been restored.
    — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
  • London has seen a deluge of hotel openings over the last few years—many of which are state-of-the-art, yes, but also a little soulless.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
  • And if the deluge is accompanied by heavy winds, whitetails will hole up on the lee side of hills or dense, wind-blocking cover.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • For the second flight, SpaceX installed a water deluge system to its pad, which dampened the blast, and made upgrades to the rocket’s engines.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Around the same time, Jennifer found gashes in the side of her car and began receiving a deluge of threatening phone calls.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 6 June 2023
  • Wines estimates that the lake doubled in size after the deluge earlier this month.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The Northeast section of the U.S. was hit with a deluge of severe storms on Sunday that caused deadly conditions on roads.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 11 July 2023
  • The shocking deluge could break multiple state and even national records for rainfall, once all is said and done.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
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deluge

2 of 2 verb
  • Heavy rains deluged the region.
  • The past day has found Houston deluged in more than 20 inches of rain.
    — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Once again she was deluged with hundreds and hundreds of songs — and dozens and dozens were just so clever.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Just don't deluge it, which will wash the seed around, resulting in patchy growth.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The Sprouse twins, now 31, were deluged with reminders on Thursday.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Officials were deluged with the aftermath of the storm.
    — Scott Bronstein, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Locals who can remember still talk about the one that deluged the town in 1972.
    — Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • As the story goes, the first wave of pounding rain deluged Kansas City early, at about 1 a.m. on Sept. 12.
    — Eric Adler, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
  • As soon as the law went into effect, the board was deluged with new requests for hearings.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2018
  • In recent days the region has been deluged with heavy rains and landslides in some areas.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 July 2018
  • The storm ravaged the island on September 20th, and then continued to deluge it with rain the next day.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Torrential rain will deluge parts of the Southeast this week as swaths of the Northwest will get walloped by feet of snow.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The office was deluged with calls from people wanting to take Baby Jan in.
    — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The threat heightens for coastal ranges and inland hills, which could get deluged with 3 to 6 inches of rain, the weather service said.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In the Sanford area, large numbers of homes and businesses were deluged with water and mud.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2020
  • Some said they had been deluged with harassing phone calls.
    — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • As her posts spread, other climbers deluged eGrips with complaints.
    — Joe Purtell, Outside Online, 30 July 2019
  • The company was deluged with angry phone calls and faxes, the Mercury News wrote.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Gilmore said he was deluged with death threats, hate mail and online hacking attempts.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Meyer said the newspaper has been deluged with offers of help.
    — John Hanna and Margery A. Beck, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Watch or not, you will be deluged by postmortems, hot takes, tweets, TV segments and panel debates.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
  • The agency said the southeastern Tokai region could be deluged by close to 40 inches of rain in a 24-hour period.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • There was a major flood in 1913, the biggest weather event in Ohio history, when a series of heavy storms deluged all Ohio's cities.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The bombings come at a time when Austin is deluged by tens of thousands of visitors for the South by Southwest festival.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • In a coastal town in Washington, climate change has a high school junior worried about the floods that keep deluging his school.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The storm is still deluging parts of coastal North Carolina as its center slowly trudges over the Atlantic Ocean.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
  • One of the only children along that section of the route, she was deluged with candy, necklaces and other trinkets thrown from floats.
    — Zach Despart, Houston Chronicle, 4 July 2018
  • Along the way, Lee could deluge some communities with a combination of rain, storm surge and high tide.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • That day, employees deluged the site with 193 reviews, more than the company had received in the entire month up to that point.
    — Andrea Fuller, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Miss Manners is deluged with complaints from hosts who cannot get firm commitments from their guests.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023

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