How to Use rainy in a Sentence

rainy

adjective
  • That is the rainy weather strategy to keep sewage out of the Seine.
    Catherine Porter James Hill, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • Even on a rainy morning in Paris, anyone can be part of the scene.
    Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
  • This bean bag kept its color and shape through many rainy storms.
    Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The wetter the rainy season that precedes the bloom, the more vibrant the flowers.
    Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The weekend is looking cold and rainy in the Portland area, and snowy in even the lower foothills.
    oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Defense ruled the day in a game played on a cold, rainy and windy afternoon.
    Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The storm will continue to move east with a snowy, rainy mix on the way for the Northeast this weekend.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Both teams slipped off into a rainy night with glares and grimaces.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • They are grown three times a year, twice in the rainy season and once during winter.
    Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Rivera said the rainy weather didn't change his team's approach.
    Stephen Whyno, ajc, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The land is high and dry, the ground rocky and inhospitable — not like the rainy coastal Northwest, where trees grow thick and fast.
    Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • What to Consider: It’s been said that the grip isn’t great in rainy weather.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Ares can pay that out as a special or keep it on hand for a rainy lending day.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The race director called it the rainiest edition on record for an event in its 32nd year.
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The one that brought rainy weather Wednesday has moved over into East Texas.
    Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • Princess Beatrice, 35, looked ready for spring despite the rainy weather in a bold pink dress with long sleeves and a white hat.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • That said, those in the know, are well aware that the cool, notoriously rainy city shines in the summer.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2024
  • But a rainy and cloudy spring in Paris have left conditions ripe for the bacteria to thrive in the river.
    Alice Park, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • Its main note is, according to the brand, Salty Air, a misty, breezy scent that reminds us of fog on a rainy beach day.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 10 Aug. 2024
  • That time of year is referred to as green season, when the weather tends to be rainy and warm in wildlife reserves and parks.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2023
  • This year the cold, rainy, windy spring delayed their arrival here well into April.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • Cold and rainy weather could play a factor for the Cubs early this season.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • December through April is hot and dry in most of the country, but rainy on the Caribbean side.
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The rainiest March in three years, with a total of 1.47 inches across Phoenix, has left the mountainsides around the Phoenix area abloom.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • On a rooftop in Lahore one rainy night, some guy who was passing out was playing Nico on loop.
    Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2023
  • What better way to add some sunshine to rainy, dreary days?
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But a recent stretch of foggy and rainy weather has limited the use of drones by both sides.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The government has increasingly turned to its rainy-day fund to plug the gap.
    Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Add it to your things-to-do-in-Portland-on-a-rainy-day list: concerts by candlelight.
    oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The show has garnered upbeat reviews, and given viewers a jolt of southern California sunshine in what has been a gray and rainy start to the autumn here.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024

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