drenching

C’mon Dodgers, you must realize what you’re doing to your best player, continually drenching his season in uncertainty, battering his body, ruining his rituals, denting his spirit.

A storm blew in, drenching the stadium and making the shot put ring treacherously slippery.

A storm blew in for the opening ceremony, drenching the city with an inch of rain and hanging around long enough to postpone skateboarding the next day.

Paris scored its first victory when hundreds of thousands braved a drenching summer storm to watch the opening ceremony on the Seine.

Despite an expensive and ambitious antipollution initiative, officials acknowledge that a single drenching downpour at an inopportune moment could send a surge of sewage into the waterway.