Examples of rainstorm in a Sentence
we ran into a big rainstorm on Highway 6, and the visibility was so poor we had to pull over
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During rainstorms, runoff sometimes overwhelms the plant’s sewage treatment system, dumping a mixture of sewage and storm runoff directly into the Pacific Ocean – an event known as a combined sewer overflow.
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Robin Kundis Craig, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
By one estimate, a single square meter of ground may be pelted with 100 million bacteria during every hour of a rainstorm.
—Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
At least nine people were killed across the South in a severe rainstorm that flooded communities and left hundreds of thousands without power.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Concerns are mounting over the potential impact of severe rainstorms on the upcoming Daytona 500, which is set to take place on Sunday.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
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Robin Kundis Craig, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
By one estimate, a single square meter of ground may be pelted with 100 million bacteria during every hour of a rainstorm.
—Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
At least nine people were killed across the South in a severe rainstorm that flooded communities and left hundreds of thousands without power.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Concerns are mounting over the potential impact of severe rainstorms on the upcoming Daytona 500, which is set to take place on Sunday.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Rainstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rainstorm. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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rainstorm
noun
rain·storm
-ˌstȯ(ə)rm 
: a storm of or with rain
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