How to Use rain shadow in a Sentence

rain shadow

noun

• So we are said to be in the rain shadow of the Himalayas.
  — National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• If Provence is the sun king of lavender fields, then Sequim is the rain shadow queen.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• The Rocky Mountains were continuing to rise, and their rain shadow dried out the Great Plains.
  — Andrew L. Hipp, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
• But the Great Basin of Nevada beyond the Sierra to the east is largely left in a gigantic rain shadow.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Medford is inland, and somewhat in a rain shadow behind the Siskiyou mountains.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2011
• Today, the Gobi sits in the rain shadow of the Himalayan Mountains, and is surprisingly good for finding fossils – if your timing is right.
  — Jon Tennant, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2016
• At those elevations, the rain shadow of the Coast Range means slightly lower rainfall totals, cooler springs and warmer autumns.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 June 2020
• But coastal mountains in the interior of the Yukon and Alaska blocked all precipitation, creating rain shadow patches of land that were too dry to support glaciers.
  — Diane Selkirk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
• Marchesi credited the combination of rain shadow protection and the loess soils deposited in the region by the prehistoric Missoula Floods with defining the region’s wines.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 June 2020
• The final effect is a rain shadow, where there’s significantly less rainfall behind a mountain region.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024