How to Use rainy in a Sentence

rainy

adjective
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  • Of course, when there are rainy days, work can’t be done.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 30 Mar. 2022
  • That is the rainy weather strategy to keep sewage out of the Seine.
    — Catherine Porter James Hill, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • Even on a rainy morning in Paris, anyone can be part of the scene.
    — Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The second week was cold and rainy and brought black rot (botrytis).
    — Tom Hyland, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Those days scored high in the chilly, rainy and gloomy categories.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2022
  • This bean bag kept its color and shape through many rainy storms.
    — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 25 Nov. 2023
  • April’s weather can swing wildly, warm one day and cold and rainy the next.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The wetter the rainy season that precedes the bloom, the more vibrant the flowers.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The weekend is looking cold and rainy in the Portland area, and snowy in even the lower foothills.
    — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Defense ruled the day in a game played on a cold, rainy and windy afternoon.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The storm will continue to move east with a snowy, rainy mix on the way for the Northeast this weekend.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Both teams slipped off into a rainy night with glares and grimaces.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • They are grown three times a year, twice in the rainy season and once during winter.
    — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Rivera said the rainy weather didn't change his team's approach.
    — Stephen Whyno, ajc, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The land is high and dry, the ground rocky and inhospitable — not like the rainy coastal Northwest, where trees grow thick and fast.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • What to Consider: It’s been said that the grip isn’t great in rainy weather.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Ares can pay that out as a special or keep it on hand for a rainy lending day.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The race director called it the rainiest edition on record for an event in its 32nd year.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • This keeps us rather cloudy and perhaps somewhat rainy.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
  • The one that brought rainy weather Wednesday has moved over into East Texas.
    — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • Princess Beatrice, 35, looked ready for spring despite the rainy weather in a bold pink dress with long sleeves and a white hat.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • That said, those in the know, are well aware that the cool, notoriously rainy city shines in the summer.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2024
  • But a rainy and cloudy spring in Paris have left conditions ripe for the bacteria to thrive in the river.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • Its main note is, according to the brand, Salty Air, a misty, breezy scent that reminds us of fog on a rainy beach day.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 10 Aug. 2024
  • That time of year is referred to as green season, when the weather tends to be rainy and warm in wildlife reserves and parks.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2023
  • That was a rainy game, and this weekend’s could be too if the remnants of Hurricane Ian make it to Charm City.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 2 Oct. 2022
  • This year the cold, rainy, windy spring delayed their arrival here well into April.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • Cold and rainy weather could play a factor for the Cubs early this season.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Noho is rainy and gray, but Eleonora Srugo’s tan is a deep ocher.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Such a boom and bust cycle means a lot of lush greenery that grows in the rainy times, and a lot of dead leaves, trees and other tinder that gets left behind when things dry.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025

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