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- noun Plural form of
cloudburst .
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Examples
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The darker ones are torrent rain, which on broad, steep slopes of favorable conformation give rise to so-called "cloudbursts"; and wonderful is the commotion they cause.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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From time to time, very strong whirlwinds or cloudbursts agitate the lake, snatching fish from their hideouts, and hurling them onto the nearby mountains.
Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009
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From time to time, very strong whirlwinds or cloudbursts agitate the lake, snatching fish from their hideouts, and hurling them onto the nearby mountains.
Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009
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(TBC enters the small rowboat boater and sailings into "infinity" and through the cloudbursts that guardian the "center of time" as loud drumbeats beater.)
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So, when it does rain -- often in midsummer cloudbursts -- it's important to keep the water on your property for as long as possible.
Green Scene: Rain gardens help conserve water in summer droughts 2010
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Another painting, Vitalis, balances cloudbursts of replicating patterns with misbehaving dots and dashes, while his sculptures are regularly doused with expressive splashes of paint.
Artist of the week 113: Toby Ziegler Skye Sherwin 2010
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My God, the phrases this girl was capable of crafting; mind you, many of them are as purple as the languorous Louisiana dusk, heaving with cloudbursts over the all-too-parched earth, but often gorgeously so.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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In keeping with his latent anarchism, Blake did not take kindly to the rantings of the studio production manager Jack Fears, who was notorious for his cloudbursts of expletives as a means of encouraging his directors to speed up their pace of filming.
One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010
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We are indeed all connected, and those butterflies moving their wings in some distant land, touch us with cloudbursts, even destructive storms.
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So many that working out in the garden, or even taking a leisurely stroll between cloudbursts has been cut short due to biting of any uncovered skin, including cheeks and noses.
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