How to Use drench in a Sentence

drench

verb

• The valley gets drenched with 50 inches of rain a year.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• Mozambique has been drenched with a year's worth of rain in four weeks.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 13 Mar. 2023
• Heavy rain has already drenched the area, and there’s more to come.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• That means that although the fit hugs your body, you won’t be drenched in back sweat.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
• We were drenched in sweat and spending nine hours out there.
  — Cori Murray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• By the time he was called into the E.R. treatment area, his face and shirt were drenched with sweat.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 16 May 2023
• Here's a beloved houseplant that loves to be drenched in sunlight.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023
• Rather than soak the rich, the tax would drench businesses and fill a slush-fund reservoir for ...
  — Micky Horstman, National Review, 13 Mar. 2024
• The city was drenched with rain, but hardly a drop of seawater.
  — Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• After the game — and after he had been drenched — Decker stands in front of his team.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2023
• There will be a break in the rain that drenched some inland areas on Wednesday.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
• By this time of the year, rain should be drenching large swaths of the Amazon rainforest.
  — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• And then the rain began, at first just a trickle, but soon a drenching downpour.
  — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• Berry told him to drench it in barbecue sauce and to not eat it too close to the bone because that's where most of the gristle was.
  — Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2023
• On some hot days, Dunn can’t cook in the kitchen without becoming drenched with sweat.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• For any New Yorker, chicken and rice brings an image to mind of a mound of food drenched in white sauce.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• But in reality, the sun can be a drag, and can give you a sunburned face or a head drenched in sweat.
  — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• It’s made from bread drenched in syrup and layered among nuts, cheese, fruit and sometimes sprinkles.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• The entire shoe shouldn't be drenched, but lightly dampened.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
• Southern California will be drenched, and rain will even fall in the state's deserts.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Boyarsky toils in a back room drenched in natural light, her cat Roxy at her side.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• The Niners have no such option to escape the rain, which drenched Las Vegas Monday.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• With lots of glass doors and windows, all of the living areas are drenched in natural light.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
• Shea butter and squalane drench the skin with extreme moisture.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
• Stepping out of her office in the rain, Sandhya is surprised to see Rahul drenched from head to toe, waiting for her on the other side of the road.
  — Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
• This tree fern is found in a soggy area of the Fortuna Forest Reserve, which is drenched by more than 20 feet of rain a year.
  — Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The room around him is drenched in darkness, with no other textures visible but the freckles on his face and the glossy shine of the Yamaha.
  — WIRED, 28 June 2023
• Storms drenched the island with 1.85 inches of rain, more than doubling the previous record for that day.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• The Northeast has been getting drenched by rain for the past 24 hours, but it is expected to taper off as the day continues.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2024
• The downpour began in late May, drenching the wheat crops in central China.
  — Nicole Hong, New York Times, 24 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024