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How to use rainwater in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Rainwater means rainfall. Example: “They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.”

Examples of rainwater by meaning

nounRainfall.

  • In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.2011 December 1, Joel Kirkland, “Australia's Record Rains Squeeze World Coal Supplies as Scientists Study Climate Pattern”, in The New York...

nounWater (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea.

  • Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.1987 January 18, Paula Deitz, “ISLAND LIVING, ENGLISH STYLE”, in The New York Times

More sentences with rainwater

  • They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.From the entry run off
  • When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater.From the entry live on
  • The dog survived three weeks on rainwater.From the entry on
  • Rainwater sinks through permeable rock to form an underground reservoir.From the entry permeable
  • Gaps between paving slabs allow rainwater to soak away.From the entry soak away
  • You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry clavicle
  • Repairs or replacement of rainwater downpipes and hoppers, clearing out and renewal of weep holes.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27. From the entry weephole
  • A villager in Yicheng county, Shanxi province, is seen here collecting rainwater.2020 December 17, Sidney Leng, “China trades rainwater for first time, but analysts say unstable trading system is far from being…. From the entry Yicheng
  • Rainwater harvesting guidance and products can be found in abundance by Googleing “rainwater-harvesting”.2011, Trevor Linsley, Basic Electrical Installation Work, 6th edition, Newnes, →ISBN, page 479. From the entry google
  • The counter supported a portable gas stove and a bucket of rainwater.2009, Margaret Donnelly, The Song of the Goldencocks. From the entry sinkless
  • The rainwater was accumulating in deep manurey puddles around the barn and stables.2005, J. P. S. Brown, Ladino, page 144. From the entry manurey
  • Every now and then some one stumbles into a soakaway for rainwater.1916, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in Mr. Britling Sees It Through. From the entry soakaway
  • NR plans to install new aluminium downpipes to carry the considerable rainwater for which the area is known.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 26. From the entry downpipe
  • He preferred the mabati roofs to the thatch because the mabati is good for rainwater harvesting and it is longer-lasting.2010, Marilyn Waite, Sustainable Water Resources in the Built Environment, page 106. From the entry mabati
  • Swales also prevent gullies from forming by intercepting rainwater, slowing it, spreading it, and storing it in the soil.2009, Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry swale
  • He says he drank rainwater collected in his shoes and ate worms and insects while hiding from jaguars and peccaries, a type of pig-like mammal.2023 March 1, “Amazon jungle: Man survives 31 days by eating worms”, in BBC News. From the entry peccary
  • A new drainage run and rainwater gullies are to be installed between the station and Oxford Road, with completion planned for December 1.2021 June 16, “Network News: Drainage work at Guiseley station”, in RAIL, number 933, page 19. From the entry gully
  • That includes irrigation efficiency practices, rainwater harvesting, stormwater capture, water recycling, and reductions in domestic water use such as xeri- or rainscaping.2015, Katie Markovich, Climate Change, Development, and Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in Grand Canyon National Park. From the entry rainscaping
  • As Mike parked the vehicle, its right wheels sank into an unpaved gutter gradually worn irregular and deep by the rush of rainwater flowing down the street.2006, Henry Clark, Trophy Boy, page 122. From the entry gutter
  • Now the Neely Masseys, and there are eight altogether, are adequately chinful people, but each one of them can catch rainwater in his ears without ever tilting his head.1987, Charles East, The New Writers of the South: A Fiction Anthology, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry chinful

Meaning of rainwater

  1. noun Rainfall.
  2. noun Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea.

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Questions about rainwater in a sentence

How do you use rainwater in a sentence?
Rainwater is used as a noun. For example: “They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.”
What is a short sentence with rainwater?
“The dog survived three weeks on rainwater.”
What does rainwater mean?
Rainwater means rainfall.

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