drench

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Moderate to major coastal flooding could drench roads and waterfront property from Delaware to Cape Cod.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

Ragasa is not expected to hit Taiwan directly but is set to drench the island's east coast with heavy rains.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2024

We could no longer detect the city, the night was so black, so full of water and motion, so unsparing was the drench.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

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

Around 25 million people in California are under a flood watch this weekend as the latest in a parade of deadly storms drenches the state.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2023

The constantly recycling water drenches the planting boxes, and the runoff drips back into the fish tank, keeping the water aerated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

He drenches his plate in too much soy sauce, and I wrinkle my nose at the salty rice.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

The landscape is drenched in civil rights history.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Soft pieces of bread are drenched in a buttery mixture of Dijon mustard, brown sugar and Worcestershire before being baked into a golden, shareable centerpiece.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Or consider the dot-com mania of the late 1990s, when eToys, Pets.com and hordes of other flash-in-the-pan internet companies drenched the market with initial public offerings of stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

I was neither fast enough to run after people nor fast enough to escape when they came after me, so I got drenched.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

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

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

Then came drenching storms, followed by the maddening doldrums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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 inmate then tossed all the juice at Gaines, drenching his uniform.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover