violent rain storm
Example Sentences
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A violent rain storm, which came up soon after the services started, almost swept the meeting away.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 22d, we came to a short portage, after going about six miles, during a violent rain storm.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
He dried and warmed himself while repairing the damaged suit, which he completed just in time to escape a violent rain storm that followed him all day.
From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Boyton, Paul
About four o'clock, the most violent rain storm, accompanied with the most terrific thunder and lightning ever known here, commenced and continued the most of the night.
From A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia by Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox)
