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The return of the remains Thursday had set off a nationwide outpouring of grief as flag-waving crowds lined highways on a rainy day to pay their respects to a convoy carrying the coffins and thousands packed a Tel Aviv square in an emotional nighttime vigil.—Melanie Lidman, arkansasonline.com, 21 Feb. 2025 Even in the drizzle of a rainy day, the quarterback was dropping the ball right into the hands of his receivers.—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025 Now, many are questioning how Maryland went from a $5.5 billion surplus at the end of the previous administration, comprising $3 billion in rainy day funds and a $2.5 billion budget surplus, to a multibillion-dollar deficit in just a few years.—J.b. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025 On a rainy day in Chanthaburi, Thailand, one random act of kindness made all the difference.—Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025 Confirmation of their romance didn't come until November 2023, when they were seen kissing while out and about on a rainy day in New York City.—Julia Moore, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025 So, on a rainy day in the East Bay, baseball royalty gathered inside Oakland Arena, situated just across the parking lot from the diamond where Henderson became a generational star and just a few miles from where Henderson attended Oakland Technical High.—Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025 Image There were no owls to see on a recent rainy day in Central Park.—Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024 If federal cuts are made, both Lamont and Looney said that lawmakers might be forced to dip into the state’s rainy day fund for fiscal emergencies in a worst-case scenario.—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2025
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