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- verb Third person singular simple present of to
drench .
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Examples
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Scorsese drenches Shutter Island in madness but not in the clichéd ways of overt, distracting symbolism or epilepsy-inducing camerawork and editing.
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When a thunderstorm drenches a big, hot city, there is a quick drop in power demand because suddenly millions of air conditioners don't have to work so hard.
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The dome drenches the space in sunlight and imbues the work (which otherwise might feel like a rehang of the "usual suspects") with a freshness.
Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010
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The dome drenches the space in sunlight and imbues the work (which otherwise might feel like a rehang of the "usual suspects") with a freshness.
Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010
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The dome drenches the space in sunlight and imbues the work (which otherwise might feel like a rehang of the "usual suspects") with a freshness.
Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010
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The dome drenches the space in sunlight and imbues the work (which otherwise might feel like a rehang of the "usual suspects") with a freshness.
Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010
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Feeling his voice is futile, in Greig's Fragile, mental-health patient Jack drenches himself in petrol, ready to set himself alight.
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Chevron and its partner, BrightSource Energy Inc., in late August began making steam from the sunlight that drenches the San Joaquin Valley in what is by far the largest such facility in the world.
Drilling for Crude Goes Solar Daniel Gilbert 2011
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Clouds have rolled on in, hiding the sun, and the insects slowly head for shelter under the leaves before the rain starts to fall and drenches them.
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The dome drenches the space in sunlight and imbues the work (which otherwise might feel like a rehang of the "usual suspects") with a freshness.
Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010
hernesheir commented on the word drenches
Oral anti-parasitic medicines given to sheep flocks when worm eggs have been observed in the feces.
February 18, 2010