Drenching is an English word with synonyms like soaking or souse. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Drenching meaning
present participle and gerund of drench
Using Drenching
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of drench
- Useful related words include: soaking, souse, sousing, wetting.
- In the example corpus, drenching often appears in combinations such as: drenching rain, the drenching, and drenching.
Context around Drenching
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drenching
- In this selection, "drenching" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, slowly, heavy, sara, rain, rains and thunderstorms stand out and add context to how "drenching" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bone drenching wet day and contended with drenching rains and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drenching" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drenching
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Plenty of magic spray drenching the old sock. (8 words)
The craze for drenching politicians in milkshake has only developed during this European election campaign. (15 words)
Speak to your doctor if you have very heavy, drenching night sweats, or an unexplained fever. (16 words)
I’m glad to hear that California will now go into a couple of dry weeks after a couple weeks with drenching rain (flooding) and snowfall in the mountains measured by the foot! (33 words)
They can anticipate a large turnout so expect to deal with long lines at the polls, unless Mother Nature doesn’t like any of the candidates and sends us a drenching rain. (32 words)
Whether or not he wins, Farage will electrify a campaign that got off to a soggy start, going back to Sunak’s announcement, made in a drenching shower outside 10 Downing St. (32 words)
I’m glad to hear that California will now go into a couple of dry weeks after a couple weeks with drenching rain (flooding) and snowfall in the mountains measured by the foot! (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Across the state on Saturday, Californians contended with drenching rains and rising water levels in the atmospheric river’s aftermath.
I’m glad to hear that California will now go into a couple of dry weeks after a couple weeks with drenching rain (flooding) and snowfall in the mountains measured by the foot!
When fresh, the cookie’s sticky, amber syrup should drip off slowly, drenching your fingers, like Winnie the Pooh’s paw, in honey.
Already, the accumulated losses from drenching thunderstorms are not much less than those from hurricanes, Dr. Prein said.
California faces more drenching rain as a historic drought has given way to flooding that’s killed at least 17 people, closed highways and sent residents fleeing for their lives.
Speak to your doctor if you have very heavy, drenching night sweats, or an unexplained fever.
The drenching is scheduled to continue through Wednesday, with local and Los Angeles area officials continuing to monitor a myriad of impacts.
They can anticipate a large turnout so expect to deal with long lines at the polls, unless Mother Nature doesn’t like any of the candidates and sends us a drenching rain.
This follows Sara drenching the northern coast of Honduras, where it has been stationary since Friday, November 15, causing rivers to overflow and leaving some residents trapped in their homes.
Whether or not he wins, Farage will electrify a campaign that got off to a soggy start, going back to Sunak’s announcement, made in a drenching shower outside 10 Downing St.
Davis, the social worker who has been helping Woods, remembers that despite it being held on a “bone-drenching wet” day, more than 100 people showed up to the Portland vigil.
Hurricane Eta's arrival Tuesday afternoon in northeast Nicaragua followed days of drenching rain as it crawled toward shore.
Just the weather; she prefers the drenching rain of the day before in Port Severn to the heat she has had to dress for in protective PPE.
Some of the turquoise waters surrounding Mauritius were stained a muddy black, fouling mangrove wetlands and drenching waterbirds and reptiles with sticky oil.
Water spilled down from the top, drenching her sculpted legs as she gazed at the lens.
Plenty of magic spray drenching the old sock.
The craze for drenching politicians in milkshake has only developed during this European election campaign.
We are so absorbed by cosmic matters that we fail to notice that the rain has been drenching the floor, through one of the French windows that open onto the balcony.
Forecasters warned that drenching rains totaling up to 3.5 feet could trigger epic flooding well inland through early next week.
It was expected to begin pushing its way westward across South Carolina later in the day, in a drenching that could go on all weekend.
Common combinations with drenching
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: