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Example sentences for "cloudbursts"

Lexicographically close words:
clotting; cloture; cloud; cloudberry; cloudburst; cloude; clouded; cloudes; cloudie; cloudiness
  1. In the dark and gloomy depths of this gash through the hills the rocks were always damp and cold; and beneath the great waterfalls, where the cloudbursts had scooped out pot-holes, there was a delicious mist and spray.

  2. I've put in all the money I earned from cloudbursts and about ten dollars, changed up small, for tutoring.

  3. Molly made Miss Walker a box of cloudbursts before she went to bed, while Nance read aloud a thrilling and highly exciting detective story borrowed from Edith Williams, whose shelves held books for every mood.

  4. The rainfall is nearly five feet a year, concentrated at times, upon the thousand miles of streets, into cloudbursts of four inches an hour and ten inches in a day.

  5. During the occasional cloudbursts it will be necessary to send some of the drainage into the lake, but this will be rapidly flowing water and will sweep offshore.

  6. It is a fact, however, that in the most arid districts cloudbursts do occur, but they are always a detriment to the parts over which they may fall.

  7. Against these cloudbursts no railway in this region can provide; and there is nothing to be done but rebuild as quickly as possible.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cloudbursts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.