raindrops

Example Sentences

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Above the fracas of color float three white clouds, from which raindrops hang like strings of beads dressing up a doorway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Amid intermittent raindrops, we were talking about cars from the ’60s when Renée stopped walking.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

These dusty specks condense from the hottest parts of the cloud, in a similar way to the raindrops that form inside clouds here on Earth.

From Space Scoop • Jul. 16, 2025

The air is cleaner during rainfall and after it because raindrops wash dirty particles out of the atmosphere.

From BBC • May 28, 2024

The sun felt like a flame brought too close, and yet it was drizzling and the lukewarm raindrops mixed with her sweat.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie