raindrops

Example Sentences

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“Gray raindrops pattered listlessly on the kitchen window, obscuring the thin morning light” as Honor Wilson is found smearing “a dot of margarine across some toast.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 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

As the children looked up, sheltering their eyes from the lashing raindrops, they saw an aircraft unlike any they’d seen before—ungainly, six-legged, dark, and totally silent.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman