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 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
• 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
• Tim Holiday reveling the arrival of the first monsoon storm of the season.
  — Photographs & Text By Elliot Ross For Time, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
• Scientists attribute these changes to the state’s sporadic monsoons, long-term drought and the larger effects of climate change caused by atmospheric warming.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024