DRENCH in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for DRENCH, such as:
1. A heavy rain drenched the travellers.
2. A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.
3. The poster don't stick even though I drench it with glue.
4. Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spots to her body.
5. The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
2. A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.
3. The poster don't stick even though I drench it with glue.
4. Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spots to her body.
5. The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DRENCH
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drench
v. permeate or impregnate
v. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 He cannot be in bed, I thought: those showers would drench him through.
2 Only then he suddenly awoke to the fact that he had been wrong about the weather and the rain was drenching his hay.
3 Serpuhovskoy went into the house to the bathroom to wash his hands and found Vronsky there; Vronsky was drenching his head with water.
4 And now a drenching rain poured down and the rising hurricane drove it in sheets along the ground.
5 Now she remembered the little umbrella, which she had forgotten to take in her hurry to be off, but regret was unavailing, and nothing could be done but borrow one or submit to a drenching.
6 When they were more than usually tall she lifted the baby to the top of her head, that it might be out of the reach of their drenching fronds.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
7 Then she snatched her hands from his, threw her arms about his neck, and pressed a sudden drenched cheek against his face.
8 Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spots to her body.
9 The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
10 Beyond the turrets of the outer wall the jungle glared and shrieked, and the sun was furious above drenched orchids.
11 Nothing moved except the gliding carriages, and the people were small and wooden, spots in a picture drenched with gold and hard bright blues.
12 He sauntered into the living-room and his glance passed from her drenched hat to her smeared rubbers.
13 The wet snow drenched their gloves; the water underfoot splashed their itching ankles.
14 Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat, we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on.
15 During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for the time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever addressed his mates.
Example Sentence:
1 The poster don't stick even though I drench it with glue.
2 Too much conflict, too many days without food, too many nights drenched from the rain and you just have angry people.
3 "Watch what you're doing, you clumsy oaf!" Bill shouted at the waiter who had drenched him with iced coffee.
4 A heavy rain drenched the travellers.
5 A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.