drenching

• As you may guess, I've had my daily drenching, which is really undercutting my attempts to persuade people that motorcycling is cool, fun and worthy of pursuit, and they weren't even in a particularly good cause - of today's 200 miles, 90 per cent were either on the North Circular or the M25, neither of which are likely to win any prizes for best-loved biking routes. —  Telegraph Blogs
• The Sunshine Coast appears set for a drenching, with Cyclone Hamish expected to dump about —  thedaily.com.au: Breaking News
• We know that if you dont save back seed corn, and instead gobble up all the golden corn - drenching it with more butter than it can even hold - then like some insane gourmand, you will never again plant nor harvest another ear of corn, and your farm will fail and the people you have fed will be punished for your sloth and avarice. —  The Moderate Voice
• Absent a widespread drenching, as in 1976, Santa Anas are the key in assessing the fall fire season in Southern California. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
• In this he was ably assisted by Philosopher Jack, whose love for the child deepened daily as he watched the sweet contented manner with which she received every drenching--and she got many--and the anxious way in which she inquired for, and sought to help, those of the party whose health began to fail Among these latter was Ben Trench Ah! —  Philosopher Jack

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