rainless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rainless
Adjective
  • The best times to see the Northern Lights are during the winter months when the sky is cloudless and the moon wanes.
    Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
  • The sky in Modesto and Sacramento is expected to be cloudless on Tuesday night, when the best galaxy viewing conditions begin, according to to the National Weather Service’s seven-day forecast.
    Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • For decades, governments have allowed companies to spritz clouds with chemicals like silver iodide to encourage extra snow or rain onto arid fields below, usually at the request of farmers and ranchers.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
  • Flickering habitability The landscape turned arid, judging by Earth’s standards, roughly 3.5 billion years ago.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • Warm, sunny weather optimizes the conditions for this sort of reaction, meaning unhealthy ozone levels are often seen in the summer.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
  • Gerard Butler is a Scot whose second film credit was the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, and Austin Butler is an American from sunny California who got his start as a teen on a handful of Disney and Nickelodeon shows in the mid-2000s.
    Katie Labovitz, People.com, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Made from Pinot Noir grapes, very dry, elegant in both taste and presentation.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
  • Leave compartments unzipped and let the backpack air dry.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Allergic reactions vary in severity from mild symptoms, such as hives and lip swelling, to life-threatening complications, such as anaphylaxis, that may include fatal respiratory problems.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • Our mild springs can confuse hydrangeas, especially when a late freeze follows warm weather.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • The South Coast Air Basin includes Orange County and non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • This prohibits wood burning both indoors and outdoors across Orange County and the non-desert areas of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Her sister’s sere hair went among the grasses; her head was full of the Child.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
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“Rainless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainless. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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