rainstorm

Example Sentences

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Johnson pledges his devotion to tropes like cawing ravens and thunderous rainstorms while giving his various red herrings silly nicknames like “the knife robot” and “the clangy clunk.”

From Los Angeles Times

By soaking soils, they’ll enable future rainstorms to more easily run off into reservoirs and snow to accumulate in the Sierra Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times

A salesperson at a Hollywood plant shop says they’ve seen more of their customers complaining of plants wilting from lack of sunlight — as well as those clearly left out in one too many rainstorms.

From Los Angeles Times

As other parts of the state bore the brunt of this week’s rainstorms, a small but mighty tornado ripped off parts of a Montebello building, sending debris flying.

From Los Angeles Times

Back in 2013, University of Washington scientists and Sound Transit predicted in a climate change study for the Federal Transit Administration that heavier rainstorms would cause medium risk of “increased groundwater seepage into tunnels.”

From Seattle Times