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25 examples of Showered in a sentence

It was frightening, and it showered us with leaves and a pungent smell.
I showered with chlorinated water, more concentrated than actually recommended.
The mosque where the respectful foreigner is showered with blessings and with tears, and welcomed as a gift.
We want to strike a balance where they have the freedom to do anything but not a lot of money showered on them so they could go out and do nothing.
I showered in campgrounds.
The 1990s film with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger is rightly showered with praise, and I enjoyed it very much, but this TV original is just as good, and in some ways, more appropriately cast.
Several of the reviews I've read showered praise on the work of director Steven Soderbergh while ignoring the actors almost completely.
Movie earned warm heavy applause after its screening in the Dubai International Film Festival yesterday evening: the audience, a mix of Europeans, Middle Easterns, and Indians, showered the director and author and lead actress with questions after the show.
So, sadly, the Pontiff’s dream of stepping on Russian soil, a soil lavishly showered with the blood of martyrs, before what the Pope has called this terrible "wolverine" century comes to an end, may never come true.
Middle Eastern dictators were showered with money and arms if they refrained from attacking Israel and kept the Islamists down.
When I met the women who live in those houses, they showered me with questions: will democracy give us food and houses?
They were stripped naked on entry, but then wore clothing and showered in single-sex groups with male guards.
Since 2009, the US has showered Saleh’s government with military aid.
In other words, no matter what blandishments are showered on Israel, when push comes to shove it is the ability to use power – not charm – that determines whether or not an outside power has a say in Arab-Israeli peacemaking.
So far, US business leaders have sided with Trump, who has showered them with corporate tax cuts and deregulation.
By contrast, Trump was showered with support from the very people he savagely attacked and harmed.
The resolutions, gestures of support, and rhetorical expressions of solidarity showered upon the Palestinians are the cheapest currency of international diplomacy.
This question left old Sorel at a loss; he felt that if he spoke he might be guilty of some imprudence; he flew into a rage with Julien, upon whom he showered abuse, accusing him of greed, and left him to go and consult his other sons.
I am received in a house, and in payment for the hospitality I receive there, the kindness that is showered upon me, I print a pamphlet reporting all that goes on in the house!
During the six weeks that had just elapsed, urged at one moment by a caprice, the Marquis had decided to enrich Julien; poverty seemed to him ignoble, dishonouring to himself, M. de La Mole, impossible in the husband of his daughter; he showered money upon him.
Far from experiencing any uneasiness, as formerly, at the kisses which his ladylove showered on him, he now sought her embraces with the obstinacy of a famished animal.
Let your worship at any rate marry this queen, now that we have got her here as if showered down from heaven, and afterwards you may go back to my lady Dulcinea; for there must have been kings in the world who kept mistresses.
The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of"Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!"and gold and silver pieces were showered on them from the galleries, it being a high point of chivalry to exhibit liberality towards those whom the age accounted at once the secretaries and the historians of honour.
Trumps and honours were showered upon his hands.
It is impossible to estimate the quantity of iron and lead which the Federals showered down upon it.