How to Use monsoon in a Sentence

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• More than anything, that monsoon helped the Bears in Week 1.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• The summer of 2020 was one of the driest monsoon seasons across the state.
  — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2020
• 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
• This means that patterns of monsoon rains are changed as well.
  — Jackson Dill and Brandon Miller, CNN, 23 Mar. 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
• The monsoon, which usually starts on June 1, is a few days late.
  — Allison Chinchar and Taylor Ward, CNN, 3 June 2021
• Last year marked one of the driest monsoon seasons on record.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2021
• Over the years, Anderson has watched monsoon floods swell the river to her doorstep.
  — azcentral, 15 Apr. 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
• The lack of monsoon rains made for the state’s driest summer on record and contributed to heat.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2021
• 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
• The African monsoon season is stronger than normal this year.
  — USA Today, 7 Oct. 2020
• 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
• This year's monsoon was sporadic and the seventh-driest on record.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
• 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
• That said, the monsoons do peak in June, July, and August—expect rainy weather at this time.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2024
• The banks below the Santa Rita Mountains once teemed with runoff and springs fed by winter storms and summer monsoon rains, only to be pumped mostly dry by the mid-20th century.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2025