rainy
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Synonyms for rainy
Synonyms: Adjective
pouring, precipitating, stormy, wet
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Examples of rainy in a Sentence
Adjective
found that the cold, rainy weather made his joints swell and acheRecent Examples on the Web: Adjective
With Mondayās rainy weather, daily attendance failed to top 100,000. — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, "Minnesota State Fair attendance breaks another record on Tuesday," 28 Aug. 2019 Despite all of the rainy weather, Neslund said the construction timeline is still going as planned. — Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, "New Kingwood H-E-B on Northpark scheduled to open in mid-November," 1 Aug. 2019 Cercospora leaf spot, a fungal disease, is active during the rainy summer weather. — Tom Maccubbin, orlandosentinel.com, "Shade encourages red bracts in poinsettia plant," 27 July 2019 The Marcus Theatres Kids Dream summer film series is a great way to spend a rainy summer morning, or just to break up the monotony of those long school-free days as the summer wears on. — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "$3 kids' movies come back to Marcus Theatres for the summer," 7 June 2019 At sunrise that rainy morning, an al-Shabaab fighter drove a pickup truck toward COP Conrad. — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, "Americaās Other Endless War: Battling al-Shabaab in Somalia," 17 Jan. 2019 About 300 people gathered for the ceremony on a rainy morning that saw the boys leave temple life to return to their families. — Sakchai Lalit, Fox News, "Thailand's rescued cave boys end stay at Buddhist temple," 4 Aug. 2018 On Monday, a rainy monsoon morning, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo arrived at a court in northern Yangon after being transferred from nearby Insein Prison. — Oliver Slow / Yangon, Time, "Judge Rules That Two Reuters Journalists Detained in Myanmar Will Stand Trial," 9 July 2018 A few weeks later, on a rainy morning in Washington, Heritage held a party for the dedication of a new dormitory for its interns, a gift from the family of E.W. Richardson, a World War II bomber pilot who went on to become a successful Ford dealer. — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, "How One Conservative Think Tank Is Stocking Trumpās Government," 20 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rainy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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