How to Use monsoon in a Sentence

monsoon

noun

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The time to not go to Thailand is the rainy season, from May to October, when monsoons blow in from all directions.
  — Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2023
• All of that is true with the Helium, which weighs a scant six ounces, but is fully taped and won’t let a drop through, even in a monsoon downpour.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 2 July 2024
• This flooding comes during the heart of monsoon season.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 29 July 2022
• Lund’s youngest, Shifa was born just as the monsoon rains began to batter their village.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• The monsoon in Phoenix was the seventh driest on record, and a La Niña winter could continue drying out the landscape.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2024
• But when flowers became scarcer after the arrival of the summer monsoon rains, birds at one site perched just 20 percent of their waking hours and used the rest of their day for feeding.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024