Word Finder - rainy

definition

Pouring with rain; wet; showery

example

Due to the rainy weather, we decided not to play in the park.

It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day.

It was a warm rainy autumn day.

Instead of ducking into the ladies' room, she pushed through the back entrance, which emptied out into a dark, rainy alley.

When a rainy day keeps me indoors, I amuse myself after the manner of other girls.

Kids fooling around with Ouija on a rainy day.

A dry season, which lasts from May to October, is followed by a rainy season, divided into the early winter and latter rains.

The brunette stood between Traci and Rainy, as if she were trying to broker a peace deal between two warring countries.

Men frequently say to me, "I should think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer to folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially."

He, too, has heard of Homer, and, "if it were not for books," would "not know what to do rainy days," though perhaps he has not read one wholly through for many rainy seasons.

Linda sent Rainy to Traci and walked with her to the cafeteria.

In the rainy season the barriers are submerged in succession, the reaches are filled and the plains of the lower Senegal are changed into immense marshes.

The northern part of the Gran Chaco is partly wooded and swampy, and as the slope eastward is very gentle and the rivers much obstructed by sand bars, floating trees and vegetation, large areas are regularly flooded during rainy seasons.

Rainy, a brooding Guardian with striking green eyes and a shock of dark hair, was his youngest station chief at a youthful two thousand years old.

He nodded and led them into the rainy night.

He remembered only the dull gray weather now rainy and now snowy, internal physical distress, and pains in his feet and side.

Rainy will have to get used to pink stuff being everywhere.

To get ahead of the vamps … Rainy shook his head.

They've been killing themselves with cyanide pills, Rainy added.

You know where Rainy is?

Yully followed him out into the cold, rainy afternoon.

Rainy paced, flung himself into a chair, paced again.

Rainy started to his feet as she rose, and she stopped.

She looked healthier and happier than during their last two encounters, and Linda had let it slip that she and Rainy were talking again.

I'm calling Rainy, Ving said.

The rainfall is abundant; in the western island groups there is no well-marked rainy season, but over the whole region the greater part of the rainfall takes place during the southern summer, even as far north as Hawaii.

She entered, and Rainy closed the door behind her.

To Sofia's surprise, Rainy obeyed, though he sat across the room and stared at her.

We better get Rainy in here before he tears down the hospital looking for her.

Rainy called to say he'd be there for a while cleaning up the mess.

Below the mountainous region of the headstreams the Juba and its tributaries flow through a country generally arid away from the banks of the streams. The soil is sandy, covered either with thorn-scrub or rank grass, which in the rainy season affords herbage for the herds of cattle, sheep and camels owned by the Boran Gallas and the Somali who inhabit the district.

Dates, almonds, grapes, figs, peaches, apricots, olives, and in rainy years melons and cucumbers grow there without irrigation.

The great drawback to this region is defective drainage; the streams have too sluggish a current to carry off the water in the rainy season.

In rainy or damp conditions new lead sheet flashings will produce an initial, uneven white carbonate on the surface.

The summer is the rainy season, but in the higher country snow and sleet are not uncommon in the winter months of May, June and July.

But the quantity of water carried seawards varies within wide limits; for whereas, during the rainy season in summer and while the snows of winter are melting in spring, great volumes of water sweep down from the mountains, these broad rivers dwindle at other times to petty rivulets trickling among a waste of pebbles and boulders.

The prevailing winds respond to the stronger poleward temperature gradients of winter by rising to a higher velocity and a more frequent and severer cyclonic storminess; and to the weaker gradients of summer by relaxing to a lower velocity with fewer and weaker cyclonic storms; but furthermore the northern zone occupied by the prevailing westerlies expands as the winds strengthen in winter, and shrinks as they weaken in summer; thus the stormy westerlies, which impinge upon the north-western coast and give it plentiful rainfall all through the year, in winter reach southern California and sweep across part of the Gulf of Mexico and Florida; it is for this reason that southern California has a rainy winter season, and that the states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico are visited in winter by occasional intensified cold winds, inappropriate to their latitude.

The true remedies consist in the avoidance of the fermentation of the leaves by careless gathering, transport or packing, in proper hygienic care in ventilation and in maintaining a proper degree of dryness in the atmosphere in rainy weather, and in the use of quicklime placed in different parts of the nursery to facilitate the transpiration of the silk-worms.

But when the rainy season has set in upon the advancing enemy, they have watched their opportunity to make excursions and vent their rage; the famished invaders have either become their prisoners or been put to death.

On a rainy day, equipped with his friend 's old raincoat, Manoj sets out to visit his old love.

Umbrella sellers do n't care what the annual rainfall is, they care how many rainy days there will be.

The rainy season over most of Pakistan is from late June to early October.

Good thing to do on a gray, rainy afternoon !

In rainy weather we suffer by water in the pit.

March had five rainy days. April had three, yielding seven hours of rain.

Why let a rainy day get in the way of exercise?

A perfect book to curl up with on a rainy winter night.

Even rainy days are packed with fun in the biggest indoor playcentres in the UK.

Phil was sensible enough to invest his earnings for the rainy day which inevitably comes to all actors.

My best work was " Rainy Day At The Seaside, " a random splattering of paint over paper.

When I arrived in December, the rainy season was well under way and the swamp forest and marshes had just become flooded.