How to Use monsoon in a Sentence
monsoon
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More than anything, that monsoon helped the Bears in Week 1.
— Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022 -
This is an abrupt change from the past two years of wet monsoons that brought record-breaking rain to the state.
— Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023 -
The monsoon rains for Arizona have been able to put a big dent in the state's drought levels over the past week.
— Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021 -
The Buckeye offense was going to rain points on the Big Ten like a monsoon.
— Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022 -
In the south of the country, rain was so rare that the region had its driest monsoon season since 1901, the IMD said.
— Sibi Arasu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023 -
The dust is normal for this time of year, as African monsoons push dry air off of North Africa and across the Atlantic.
— Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024 -
But the monsoon rarely sparks lightning in downtown San Diego.
— Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023 -
Last year marked one of the driest monsoon seasons on record.
— Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2021 -
And a monsoon storm following the fire completely wiped out the creek.
— Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2022 -
For the Southwest, the North American monsoon can be both a blessing and a curse.
— Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024 -
Moist air from the monsoon creeps north from the Indian Ocean in July.
— Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024 -
When the monsoon rains arrived in July, the river rose again.
— Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2021 -
But with the monsoon season just beginning in the state, the road ahead will not be easy for Ruidoso.
— Charlotte Slovin, ABC News, 24 July 2024 -
Nearly 1,700 people have been killed in the floods caused by heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers.
— Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022 -
Later in the summer of 2002, the monsoon brought heavy rains, which washed across the denuded slopes above Cibecue Creek.
— AZCentral.com, 26 June 2022 -
Water pours over in a 70-foot drop after snowmelt or monsoon storms.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023 -
The monsoon season starts in June and ends in September.
— Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 25 July 2021 -
Styx had taken me over levees, across county and state lines, and in one case, through a monsoon.
— Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024 -
Wells in the region only have fresh water in the months after monsoon rains.
— Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021 -
As summer ends, so does the monsoon season, which brings less risk of afternoon storms and more time on the trail.
— Outside Online, 20 Sep. 2024 -
But the monsoon patterns have changed, bringing heavy rains for a few hours or days, followed by longer dry spells.
— Sanket Jain, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2021 -
The fish have adapted to the harsh monsoon-to-drought cycles of the desert rivers that flood with melted mountain snowpack in the spring and are parched in the late summer.
— Stephanie Mencimer, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2022 -
The lack of monsoon clouds has been compounded by a series of heat domes that have settled over the region.
— Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024 -
Enlarge / Tracks of monsoon rain systems across the region.
— Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2022 -
There will also be monsoon storms in the Desert Southwest through midweek.
— Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021 -
And if this year’s monsoon is anything like last year’s—poor and patchy—that would spell even more trouble for rising prices.
— Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 May 2022 -
In 2017, foam spewed out of the second-largest lake in Bangalore in the country’s south after monsoon rains.
— NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021 -
Rain from the monsoon slowed the process of salvaging items and cleaning up the fire’s wreckage, which included the collapse of part of the roof, Robertson said.
— Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021 -
From brown to green Between July and September every year, rainfall north of the equator in Africa increases due to monsoon season.
— Devika Rao, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024 -
After an abnormally dry monsoon, Arizona's soils and vegetation are drier.
— Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
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