Example sentences for: torrents

How can you use “torrents” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When they broke, torrents of mud and rock tore down the valleys and through the villages and towns along the river banks.

  • Recent analyses suggest that 70% of non-functional duplicated genes (pseudogenes) in the human genome result from retrotransposition rather than any DNA-based process (Torrents et al.

  • The national parks of the Rocky Mountains provide unrivaled opportunities for exhilarating contacts with a wilderness where you can really escape from your fellow man: camping and hiking through the forests; fishing in the myriad lakes and rivers; canoeing and whitewater rafting in the mountain torrents.

  • First published in Britain by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1985, this is quite an uneven work, entries running from “Arnold Bennett's choice of the twelve finest novels in the world” (which includes Torrents of Spring, Virgin Soil, On the Eve , and nine others, all Russian), to a quotation from Gershon Legman, “Murder is a crime.

  • Hair rose up and drove out hats in the 1960s--rose up, spread out, and flowed down in merciless torrents, sweeping away conventional hats as if they represented all that was loathsome in civilized life.


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