rainless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rainless
Adjective
  • The mountain peaks jetted into a cloudless Dodger-blue sky as the wind whipped and the waves beneath crested and crashed.
    Dan Woike, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Stargazers can also glimpse a full moon and a bright Venus during cloudless nights in the middle of the month.
    Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Encountering one requires a deliberate journey into the arid interior of Australia — a habitat as remote as the species itself.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Global lithium demand, which is expected to grow by 40 times by 2040, could outpace the limited annual rain that supplies freshwater to the arid Lithium Triangle.
    Nidhi Sharma, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Fans have speculated that since the first three seasons were all set in a sunny locale, the upcoming season could switch things up by spending time at a White Lotus resort in a cooler climate.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Mostly sunny skies are expected in Central Florida on Sunday, Spectrum News 13 meteorologist Zach Covey said.
    Elainie Barraza, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The natural sugars in dry fruits may ferment in the gut, leading to gas and discomfort.
    Faye Remedios, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Gentle moisturizers: Your skin might feel dry, tight, and flaky, especially when the rash starts to scab.
    Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The snowpack would provide constant runoff for rivers and streams and lakes, a riparian cornucopia ensuring only the mildest wildfires would ever come for our arboreal paradise.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Even if a vaccinated person does develop the illness, symptoms are generally mild and the illness is less contagious.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • Cocktail grapefruit grows wherever conventional grapefruit grows, although fruit quality is best, as with grapefruit generally, in desert or semi-desert conditions.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
  • It should be kept in mind that the territory the cession of which is provided for is largely desert and very sparsely inhabited.
    Anonymous, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2011
Adjective
  • Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.
    Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
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“Rainless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainless. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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