How to Use rainwater in a Sentence
rainwater
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Otherwise, rainwater pools in the folds and the low spots.
— Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023 -
Puddles spread across the whole street, and the bronze Tchaikovsky in his bronze chair sat in a small pool of rainwater.
— Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 -
Scott also has a separate line and a rainwater barrel on the side of the house to give a soak to the rest of the plants.
— Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024 -
More than 3,700 cubic miles of rainwater fall from the sky each year.
— Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2021 -
In some of the upstairs units, nails protrude from the floorboards, and rainwater falls from holes in the ceiling.
— Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022 -
On your street, take a look at the nearest catch basin and clear debris from the top to allow rainwater to flow in freely.
— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024 -
The water used to proof and distill the vodka comes from springs fueled by snow and rainwater.
— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023 -
And when a major storm like the remnant of Ida hits, rivers of rainwater gush into the subway.
— Errol Louis, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021 -
The woman in the well The body was pulled from a rainwater well on the forest grounds of a rural Belgian cottage in August 1991.
— Leo Sands, Washington Post, 10 May 2023 -
That, no matter how dry the weather, Were filled with rainwater.
— Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 -
The city's rainwater catchment basins have been so dry that one, the El Cristo basin, caught fire on Tuesday, burning through 75 acres.
— USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Fire Chief Mark Polzin said the southwest corner of the building caved in, likely due to rainwater.
— Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2022 -
The wall had holes, which were likely used as part of sewage or rainwater systems, experts said.
— Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024 -
Squalls blew in from the Sahara; the rainwater, brown with desert dust, served for showering and washing clothes.
— Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024 -
Ronald described the pots and bowls that have been laid out throughout the cabin to catch rainwater, a makeshift fix that has been going on for the last two years.
— Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022 -
But in the case of Hurricane Ida, the main threat was rainwater flowing downhill, not storm surge pushing in from the coast.
— New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021 -
The park stores large amounts of rainwater and prevents the surrounding streets from flooding.
— Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022 -
Some of the rainwater is flooding rivers, flowing out to sea, and washing into storm drains.
— Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023 -
Here's how to put rainwater to good use in your garden and prevent it from causing damage to your yard and home.
— Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2024 -
The buckets are used to collect rainwater during the wet season.
— John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022 -
In the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, 100 homes were swamped by rainwater.
— Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024 -
In the vast, red-dirt hinterland of Australia, over 400 miles northwest of the shores of Sydney, rainwater is scarce.
— New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022 -
Trotsenko and his wife, who hid for weeks in their basement, burned wood from the fence that surrounded their house to boil rainwater.
— Washington Post, 8 May 2022 -
Berms and swales on their property help direct rainwater to plants that need it.
— Thad Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2021 -
First, mercury can dissolve in rainwater and then fall to the forest floor during rain events.
— Jacqueline Gerson, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022 -
Inside, a trash can collected dripping rainwater from a leak in the roof.
— Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Lines for clean water can last hours, and some have turned to collecting rainwater.
— Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023 -
The natural salty minerals from land runoff into the rainwater and the ocean.
— USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023 -
There are many long days spent in the car without seeing a tornado while eating gas station food and ending the day smelling like rainwater and sweat.
— Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 July 2024 -
The overall feeling is a bit like a Japanese temple—a wide, curved roof which collects rainwater, creating an accidental waterfall at the front.
— Kissa Castaneda, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
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