diluvian
IPA: dɪɫˈuviʌn
adjective
- Pertaining to a deluge, or flood.
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Examples of "diluvian" in Sentences
- Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters.
- If he advocated the same sort of ante-diluvian approach to the teaching of science, there would be uproar?
- Irritable said, "Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters."
- Perhaps the giant bike racks are actually intended to be mooring anchors for personal water craft in post-diluvian NYC.
- Sufficient is however left to show that it belongs to an order of animals not yet described as either of anti or post-diluvian existence.
- Some new kind of slaughter, or, Lost in the flood and how we found home again : diluvian myths from around the world / Chicago : Archaia, c2007.
- This would give the public a route into the evidence independent of the broadcasters and their ante-diluvian copyright and selective editing regimes.
- A. David Lewis and MP Mann have made their four-issue series on diluvian or flood myths, Some Kind of Slaughter, available for free download in the hopes of garnering a Harvey Awards nomination.
- Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness."
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