By 0500 hours, the rain had slowed to a steady downpour.

She could see nothing but a dim wall of mist and a steady downpour.

He had to yell to be heard over the steady downpour.

At the end of what must have been more than an hour, it began to rain, a hard and steady downpour that soaked them.

The rain pounded against the windows now, a steady downpour.

She continued talking to him in a steady, musical downpour, to which he was attentive.

It's rained for the last week in a steady downpour.

His father had taken him to Tokyo by train and together they walked to the theater in a steady downpour.

After the charges were set, he guarded the bridge all night in a steady downpour.

The end of an era - greeted by a steady downpour.