Cloudburst

Usage examples of rainstorm.

Winter on the island of Obuda brought endless driving rainstorms roaring off the Bothnian Ocean.

But: The Soul watches the ceaselessly changing universe and follows all the fate of all its works: this is its life, and it knows no respite from this care, but is ever labouring to bring about perfection, planning to lead all to an unending state of excellence--like a farmer, first sowing and planting and then constantly setting to rights where rainstorms and long frosts and high gales have played havoc.

More than a million dollars was raised by the Vietnam War Dog Handlers Association, and on February 21, 2000, in the midst of a rainstorm, more than 200 veteran dog handlers dedicated a monument to the war dogs of all wars at March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California, as a crowd of 2,000 looked on.

Now, its power whispered like well-worked muscles after a footrace, like the clear light after a summer rainstorm.

The hitchhiker who appears in the rainstorm is set to take that from him and cannot be bought off by ransom of any kind.

I found that out the morning I ducked under an overhang out of a rainstorm and found him with a Mapuche girl.

They paralleled one of the blacktops that cut out from Salvation, angling away from the railroad, leading to a low range of hills, dull colored, like sand after a rainstorm.

A pale promontory flashed in and out of view on the western horizon as a rainstorm occluded it at intervals.

It was nearly choked: the rainstorm had filled it with pebbles and stones.

This mound was ancient, built of the mud that had pooled here when infrequent rainstorms caused temporary floods.

Creating a unit like the Steel Pack that practiced moving and attacking in driving rainstorms would allow him to destroy flashdrakers and win against all sorts of odds.

She slept through the rainstorm that produced a flowering of bright, water-repellent paper umbrellas and big straw rain hats along the road and sent unprepared travelers scurrying for cover.

It seemed as though they had ridden through eternity, through a rainstorm that, paradoxically, had relieved the worst of the chaos backflash agony.

If anything in the world is capable of making them laugh at this moment, it is the concept of trying to construct a bonfire out of saturated codebooks in a swamp during a rainstorm.

Insects were busy in the grass and wheat, butterflies flickered above the poppies and cornflowers, and the last ragged clouds of the rainstorm died and disappeared.