RAIN in a Sentence

Learn RAIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

373 example sentences for RAIN, such as:

1. It never will rain roses.
2. Let's wait till the rain stops.
3. The rain is coming from the west.
4. The rain was sudden and universal.
5. The rain falls very heavy, and the wind has risen.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rain
 n.  water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
 n.  anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The whole place was very sloppy from the rain which had fallen through the night.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  Now, up to last night, we have had no rain for a week, so that those wheels which left such a deep impression must have been there during the night.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard, except the dripping of the rain.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
5  It never fell as sun, shadow, or rain upon the world, but disregarded the little coloured ball of earth entirely.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
6  Looking up she received two great blots of rain full in her face.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
7  The rain was sudden and universal.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
8  It was a wet night, and many groups of young women passed him, with their shawls drawn over their bare heads and held close under their chins to keep the rain out.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
9  The rain fell, and the Smoke-serpents, submissive to the curse of all that tribe, trailed themselves upon the earth.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
10  In the waste-yard outside, the steam from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
11  The rain falls very heavy, and the wind has risen.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
12  The wind was blowing again, the rain was beating on the house-tops, and the larger spaces through which he had strayed contracted to the four walls of his room.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
13  She had nothing to do, then, but to cover herself with her shawl before going out into the wind and rain.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
14  It had cleared the sky before it, and the rain had spent itself or travelled elsewhere, and the stars were bright.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
15  It was only rain, beginning to fall fast, in heavy drops.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
16  Then the rain came and the red flag went up to signal a halt.
17  Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
18  The drop of rain makes a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by of falling.
19  Blow-off vision of the rain, so that you are left with a brilliant rainbow.
20  The rain prevented her having clear vision of the road ahead.
21  Let's wait till the rain stops.
22  It never will rain roses.
23  You can rely upon it that it will rain this weekend.
24  The rain had kept me indoors all weekend and I was beginning to get cabin fever.
25  The tent began to sag under the weight of the rain.
26  The rain is coming from the west.
27  Thicker cloud with occasional rain or drizzle will spread into some western areas during the night.
28  If there be neither snow nor rain, then will be dear all sorts of grain.
29  Wind and rain have eroded the statues into shapeless lumps of stone.
30  Life frustration, is the rainbow after the storm; life is suffering, there is sunshine after rain the sky looks blue.