drenching
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Thick foam from the building’s insulation floated by on streams that leaked from the hulking shell, which firefighters have been drenching for days since the fire erupted on the roof the afternoon of June 17.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
The settlement was reached five years after 15,000 gallons of jet fuel from a Delta Air Lines plane were dumped onto Cudahy, drenching children playing at a school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
A wave came in, drenching the baby turtles as they swarmed up to meet it.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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