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. The rain had freshened the air.
2. The rain has helped clear the air.
3. The rain was sudden and universal.
4. It was absolutely pouring with rain.
5. The rain continued falling all afternoon.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RAIN
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)
1  It was absolutely pouring with rain.
2  Counsel after action is like rain after harvest.
3  The branches of the tree drooped after the heavy rain.
4  The rain continued to fall all afternoon.
5  The rain continued falling all afternoon.
6  The rain splattered against the french windows.
7  The rain has stopped, so the game will go ahead after all.
8  The rain had freshened the air.
9  The rain has helped clear the air.
10  Would a man running in the rain, also don't want to put into the arm.
11  Would a man running in the rain, also don't want to put into the arms of the false.
12  The most beautiful is not the rainy day,but with you avoid the rain eaves.
13  We saw the rain and made a hasty retreat into the bar.
14  All areas of the country will have some rain tonight.
15  Toward the end of the afternoon it began to rain.