drench
Example Sentences
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“If anything, we’re drenched in the legacy of this music. We’re optimists. I’m not ran by no doomsday clock. When we perform shows, people say, ‘You give me hope.
From Los Angeles Times
“I’m all sweaty from being in the kitchen,” I said, noting how drenched my shirt was, and I sniffed it.
From Literature
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The forest was drenched in jeweled hues: the cerulean waters of Peace, the gilded light of Pleasure, the emerald luster of Progress, the crimson blaze of Pain.
From Literature
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So when rain drenches Tenerife's beaches it is not unusual for snow to fall over the volcano.
From BBC
He describes it as "madness" that sunshine drenched southern Italy doesn't put up more solar panels, for example.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.