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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of shower.

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Examples

  • Rain showered from the edge of the umbrella onto Rue’s hair.

    GOD OF WORMS • by K.C. Shaw 2009

  • The image was first seen when Juan Diego dropped from his cloak the Castillian roses the Virgin produced as a sign to prove her existence showered from the tilma to the Bishop’s feet.

    Christmas holidays in Mexico: festivals of light, love and peace 2006

  • The image was first seen when Juan Diego dropped from his cloak the Castillian roses the Virgin produced as a sign to prove her existence showered from the tilma to the Bishop’s feet.

    Christmas holidays in Mexico: festivals of light, love and peace 2006

  • True, I have won battles, made laws, founded churches; but a single word serves to give the lie to all the pompous titles showered upon me by the people's admiration, and this one word rings out clearer in my ears than all the flattery of courtiers, all the songs of poets, all the orations of the crowd: -- I am an usurper! "

    Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • As more coinage showered into the hat, one among the crowd turned away with a smothered oath, and a look of hatred.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.

    The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895

  • There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • In Germany not only are titles showered upon the populace, but it is distinctly and officially stated by what title the office-holder shall be addressed.

    Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886

  • There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.

    The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

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