What is "monsoons"

Usage examples of "monsoons".

These fairs were held only during the dry seasons, since the monsoons roaring up from the Southern Sea otherwise made passage of the bogland watercourses impossible.

There would surely be a storm before night, one of the harbingers of the winter monsoons that were due in only two weeks.

And finally, in March, when the monsoons came, she began slowly to feel human.

We had built underground, and then the monsoons came and washed it all away.

The river was high, but it had still not filled the steep-sided ravine that successive monsoons had scarred into the flat earth and Sharpe guessed that the river was only at half flood.

The city of Bodach had been engineered by the ancients to take into account the extremely fierce monsoons that swept across the desert-then the sea-during the very brief storm seasons, but in all the years that the city had been abandoned, the gutters had cracked and been filled with wind-blown sand.