torrential

Modifying Another Word

• absolutely: We headed back along the road in absolutely torrential rain: the road was a complete sheet of water.
• then: Then came then came the rain, heavy at first and then torrential later.
• often: Bearing that in mind I should touch on the persistent and often torrential downpour that we hardy souls had to endure.
• increasingly: The flow of images in our lives is increasingly torrential.
• now: The spray was now torrential, but the view was awesome ( pictures to come!

Modifies a noun

• downpour: On Saturday we had a torrential downpour of rain, the like of which few of us can remember.
• rain: The next day we woke up to torrential rain outside the windows of the flat.
• rainstorm: A torrential rainstorm completely washed out the road leading down to the house.
• thunderstorm: Took the bus back to Helsinki and arrived in a torrential thunderstorm.
• rainfall: Even torrential rainfall on the Thursday morning didn't affect the numbers!
• storm: I had a great drive home on the motorway through that torrential storm!

Used with adjective complement

• become: We walked up to a shelter as the rain became torrential.
• get: It had rained constantly since we'd arrived and it got torrential during the second half.