Pronunciation of the English word deluge.
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1. | After us, the Deluge. | |
2. | The deluge was a notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. | |
3. | The flood of 1342 was the biggest deluge in the history of central Europe. | |
4. | "High in the citadel the monstrous frame / pours forth an armed deluge to the day, / and Sinon, puffed with triumph, spreads the flame. / Part throng the gates, part block each narrow way; / such hosts Mycenae sends, such thousands to the fray." | |
5. | Force wins a footing, and, the foremost slain, / in, like a deluge, pours the Danaan train. | |
6. | So when the foaming river, uncontrolled, / bursts through its banks and riots on the plain, / o'er dyke and dam the gathering deluge rolled, / from field to field sweeps on with cattle, flock and fold. | |
7. | The Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians. | |
8. | “The constant deluge of information can very rapidly shift you from the realm of ‘informed, proactive citizen’ to ‘on-fire garbage can crammed with so much content it ceases to do anything other than feed your anxiety,’” she says. |