How to Use rainwater in a Sentence

rainwater

noun
  • Otherwise, rainwater pools in the folds and the low spots.
    — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
  • Puddles spread across the whole street, and the bronze Tchaikovsky in his bronze chair sat in a small pool of rainwater.
    — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Scott also has a separate line and a rainwater barrel on the side of the house to give a soak to the rest of the plants.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The scheme, which also helps to harvest rainwater, is the first of its kind in the tropics.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • More than 3,700 cubic miles of rainwater fall from the sky each year.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2021
  • In some of the upstairs units, nails protrude from the floorboards, and rainwater falls from holes in the ceiling.
    — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Those who remain on the coast collect rainwater to drink and cook with.
    — The Economist, 8 May 2021
  • The result was soil so packed in that rainwater couldn’t seep down, and tree roots couldn’t expand.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The result was soil so packed in that rainwater couldn't seep down, and tree roots couldn't expand.
    — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
  • On your street, take a look at the nearest catch basin and clear debris from the top to allow rainwater to flow in freely.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Many are built to be more than 200 feet high, and have reservoirs on top of them meant to capture rainwater.
    — NBC News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The lake is now fed by rainwater, runoff and two groundwater wells.
    — Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The tops of the boxes are slanted so rainwater flows away from ballots.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The water used to proof and distill the vodka comes from springs fueled by snow and rainwater.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And when a major storm like the remnant of Ida hits, rivers of rainwater gush into the subway.
    — Errol Louis, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
  • The woman in the well The body was pulled from a rainwater well on the forest grounds of a rural Belgian cottage in August 1991.
    — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • In advance of the storm, residents across the city are being asked to clear storm drains in the area around their houses to help with the drainage of rainwater.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • That, no matter how dry the weather, Were filled with rainwater.
    — Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The city's rainwater catchment basins have been so dry that one, the El Cristo basin, caught fire on Tuesday, burning through 75 acres.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Fire Chief Mark Polzin said the southwest corner of the building caved in, likely due to rainwater.
    — Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2022
  • The wall had holes, which were likely used as part of sewage or rainwater systems, experts said.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Our driveway, is then, the outlet (for rainwater) from the circle.
    — cleveland, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Another of a dead woman on the ground, blood running like rainwater where the street meets the curb—a hell of a lot of blood for one person.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The cacti grow solely on rainwater and minerals from the earth, and only the mature leaves are sun-dried and used to make the bags.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Squalls blew in from the Sahara; the rainwater, brown with desert dust, served for showering and washing clothes.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • Ronald described the pots and bowls that have been laid out throughout the cabin to catch rainwater, a makeshift fix that has been going on for the last two years.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Water that flows through Roo Valley and in the penguin pool is 100% rainwater.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2020
  • But in the case of Hurricane Ida, the main threat was rainwater flowing downhill, not storm surge pushing in from the coast.
    — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The ruins of ancient temples, roads, a harbor and a cistern for collecting rainwater lie near Turkey’s western coast.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Six years later, rainwater cascading through a hole in the roof revealed another reality.
    — Michael Walker, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025

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