How to Use rainwater in a Sentence

rainwater

noun

• 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
• Used tires in a junkyard, a tire swing, an old tire leaning against a garage: All can fill with rainwater and attract the insects.
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
• 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
• This all causes the tides to pick up, pulling ocean water onto land (called a storm surge), which combines with excess rainwater.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 16 Oct. 2024
• Their Maui, Hawaii, ceremony took place on a rainy December day, but it was made all the more special with a suggestion from Salvador, who thought the couple should wash their hands in a bowl of rainwater.
  — Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024