How to Use deluge in a Sentence

deluge

1 of 2 noun
  • The deluge caused severe mudslides.
  • And that was before this deluge.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But the water is still flowing in, and with each new inch, more things are lost to the deluge.
    — Ketan Joshi, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • So how can job seekers stand out among the deluge of candidates?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
  • To his left is a black car with a bulky, rounded frame, glimmering in the deluge.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
  • But most are still pending as the Navy has struggled to process the deluge of claims.
    — Michael Kosnar, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Their solar calories come in a trickle — or a deluge.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • More than 230 people in Spain were killed in the deluge.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The ugliness will be fueled by a deluge of campaign cash from both sides.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • In the longer view, though, the state’s water problems have come just as often from deluge as from drought.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The deluge of rain and snow has paused, and the sun is out in Los Angeles.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Watson moved out to the area about 20 years ago, when the area got a similar deluge of snow.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • September is often a deluge of our biggest and best titles of the year.
    — Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There’s even a scene of divine intervention in the form of a deluge of rainfall.
    — CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The Altman saga is still unfolding, and every day has brought a deluge of news.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But with the skies filled once again with missiles and bombs, the deluge of casualties had resumed.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Vermont saw a deluge of rain, its second 100-year storm in roughly a decade.
    — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
  • Trump's arch draws deluge of negative comments.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • The shot deluge is a curved dispenser with a spout with which to deposit alcohol straight into a guest’s mouth.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At least one person had to be rescued from the deluge, authorities said.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Seeing those stars may prove a challenge, in fact, due to the deluge of moonlight pouring from the lunar disk.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • There’s no doubt there will be a deluge of loyal customers vying to cash in on their oldest savings keepsake.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • Outside, a deluge is in progress, and hundreds of fans have been already standing in the rain for hours, waiting for doors to open.
    — David Feliba, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Chewy dumpling wrappers brimming with silky smooth black beans under a deluge of queso fresco and salsa macha.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The shocking deluge could break multiple state and even national records for rainfall, once all is said and done.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • After the second restart, a massive deluge arrived.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2026
  • Wines estimates that the lake doubled in size after the deluge earlier this month.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The launchpad notably lacked a flame deflector—or water deluge system—which most pads are built with.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The deluge is enough to refill America’s whites-only pools.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • The deluge seemed somehow fitting on a night that rapidly devolved for the Red Sox.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023

deluge

2 of 2 verb
  • Heavy rains deluged the region.
  • Just don't deluge it, which will wash the seed around, resulting in patchy growth.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Once again she was deluged with hundreds and hundreds of songs — and dozens and dozens were just so clever.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Gilmore said he was deluged with death threats, hate mail and online hacking attempts.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • As her posts spread, other climbers deluged eGrips with complaints.
    — Joe Purtell, Outside Online, 30 July 2019
  • Since then, it has been deluged with inquiries about franchising.
    — Gary Stern, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In recent days the region has been deluged with heavy rains and landslides in some areas.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 July 2018
  • As soon as the law went into effect, the board was deluged with new requests for hearings.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2018
  • Soon, Mack was deluged with texts and calls from coaches eager to recruit him.
    — Janet Lorin, Bloomberg, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The past day has found Houston deluged in more than 20 inches of rain.
    — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Meyer said the newspaper has been deluged with offers of help.
    — John Hanna and Margery A. Beck, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • They are deluged with requests for selfies, or simply for handshakes.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The press has been deluged with letters from horrified subscribers.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Miss Manners is deluged with complaints from hosts who cannot get firm commitments from their guests.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Both sides are deluging the White House with their arguments.
    — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Locals who can remember still talk about the one that deluged the town in 1972.
    — Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • Within minutes, we were deluged in an avalanche of furious comments.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Sprouse twins, now 31, were deluged with reminders on Thursday.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The office was deluged with calls from people wanting to take Baby Jan in.
    — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In the Sanford area, large numbers of homes and businesses were deluged with water and mud.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2020
  • Watch or not, you will be deluged by postmortems, hot takes, tweets, TV segments and panel debates.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
  • They’re proposed by some as the solution to beaches deluged with plastic and fish bellies stuffed with bottle caps.
    — Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Along the way, Lee could deluge some communities with a combination of rain, storm surge and high tide.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • One of the only children along that section of the route, she was deluged with candy, necklaces and other trinkets thrown from floats.
    — Zach Despart, Houston Chronicle, 4 July 2018
  • The threat heightens for coastal ranges and inland hills, which could get deluged with 3 to 6 inches of rain, the weather service said.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In a coastal town in Washington, climate change has a high school junior worried about the floods that keep deluging his school.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The company was deluged with angry phone calls and faxes, the Mercury News wrote.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Torrential rain will deluge parts of the Southeast this week as swaths of the Northwest will get walloped by feet of snow.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Hadi’s phone was deluged with requests from people who had fled Tehran or from friends based abroad, asking him to help out their relatives.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The market can be deluged by such entities, which run their companies into the ground through dilution and reverse splits.
    — David Capablanca, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

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