Cloudburst [noun]
Definition of Cloudburst:
rainstorm
Opposite/Antonyms of Cloudburst:
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Sentence/Example of Cloudburst:
Once black clouds gathered in the distance, to pour out a cloudburst.
A deep sheet of water swept down from the prairie beyond the town limits to the west, where the rainfall was a cloudburst.
Before it lay a long descent, a cloudburst, the sunset of a civilization, another night.
Just a yielding here, a parting there, until the cloudburst precipitated the disaster.
The first awful effects of the cloudburst were passing, and the water was going down slowly but surely.
A lot of cheap photographers and street-car conductors were caught in a cloudburst of money and thought they made it.
Along towards evening a dreadful tempest burst up in the hillsa regular cloudburst.
A hundred years they had stood there, defying storm and cloudburst, but at last the drought was sucking away their life.
"Cloudburst" is merely a picturesque name for a very heavy shower; usually a thunder-shower.
He had hardly time to get out the words before the spouted water came down with the force of a cloudburst upon the boat.