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.

Safe could Antenor pass th' Illyrian shore / through Danaan hosts, and realms Liburnian gain, / and climb Timavus and her springs explore, / where through nine mouths, with roaring surge, the main / bursts from the sounding rocks and deluges the plain."

“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.

The Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.

The town was deluged with tourists in summer.

The deluge was a notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

Force wins a footing, and, the foremost slain, / in, like a deluge, pours the Danaan train.

The flood of 1342 was the biggest deluge in the history of central Europe.

After us, the Deluge.

The teacher was deluged with questions.