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How to use rainstorm in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Rainstorm means a storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall. Example: “Some of these Southeastern rainstorms are shocking to folks who didn't grow up here.”

Examples of rainstorm by meaning

nounA storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.

  • To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55

More sentences with rainstorm

  • Some of these Southeastern rainstorms are shocking to folks who didn't grow up here.From the entry southeastern
  • Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?From the entry chance
  • During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.From the entry shelter
  • The mud was squishy underfoot after the rainstorm.From the entry squishy
  • An unseasonal rainstorm took everyone by surprise.From the entry unseasonal
  • The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms.2005, Robert L. Mott, Radio Sound Effects. From the entry watery
  • Rainstorms also pounded North Korea, where authorities issued heavy rain warnings for the southern and western parts of the country.2022 August 9, Kim Tong-hyung, “South Korean rain turns roads into rivers, leaves 9 dead”, in AP News, sourced from SEOUL, South Korea…. From the entry Taedong
  • "When she heard you'd teach piana, she was eager as a wet hog in a rainstorm to get in here."1979, Dirck Van Sickle, Montana Gothic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. From the entry piana
  • Farmland in Jianshi county in Hubei province was flooded after the heaviest rainstorm in 36 years, causing landslides, debris flows and power outages.2016 June 3, Nectar Gan, “Storms cause flooding, landslides along Yangtze River in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Jianshi
  • The river carried in the pipe at Sloane Square is the Westbourne, and the pipe is said to shake in a rainstorm.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry Westbourne
  • "We were looking east through the rectory window at a rainbow when my wife spotted a grey, cigar-shaped object emerging from the rainstorm."1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 77. From the entry cigar-shaped
  • Outstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.1962, Alice L. Voiland and associates, “The Egocentric Family”, in Family Casework Diagnosis, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University…. From the entry pickyness
  • Chocolate milk is not the byproduct of brown cows; it is not gathered and siphoned into cartons after chocolate rainstorms; it's just normal cow juice with some cocoa mixed in.2017 June 15, River Donaghey, “A Lot of American Adults Think Brown Cows Make Chocolate Milk”, in Vice, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry cow juice

Meaning of rainstorm

  1. noun A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.

Full definition of rainstorm

Questions about rainstorm in a sentence

How do you use rainstorm in a sentence?
Rainstorm is used as a noun. For example: “Some of these Southeastern rainstorms are shocking to folks who didn't grow up here.”
What is a short sentence with rainstorm?
“An unseasonal rainstorm took everyone by surprise.”
What does rainstorm mean?
Rainstorm means a storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.

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