rainstorm

• “With the calming effects of subtlety, familiarity and authenticity, J.Crew eases a risk-averse male into new looks, as simple as a madras shirt in a pinkish-reddish/aqua-gray colorway it calls "rainstorm.”

  News - chicagotribune.com

• “And a computer simulation of consciousness is no more the real thing than a computer simulation of digestion is an actual digestive process or the computer simulation of a rainstorm is a solution to the drought.”

  Fictionaut: Sugar and Saline

• “If properly designed, a foul flush device or detachable downpipe is fitted for exclusion of the first 20 litres of runoff during a rainstorm, which is mostly contaminated with dust, leaves, insects and bird droppings.”

  Chapter 5

• “A cactus desert in the rare orgy of a rainstorm is a place of wonder.”

  Success A Novel

• “The Chesapeake Bay Foundation estimates during an average rainstorm, which is 1 inch in 24 hours, more than 700 gallons of water run off the roof of a typical home.”

  The Seattle Times

• “This is the kind of rainstorm where you get the feeling it won't ever stop - I'm looking at a Blade Runner future here, with everything just falling apart in the rain.”

  Music (For Robots): October 2005 Archives

• “LENO: ... some kind of rainstorm, there's one of those poor guys I never heard of chained to a pole in Miami.”

  CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: West Coast Welcomes New Year - January 1, 2000

• “Once, after a thunderous Kalahari rainstorm, the frogs made a lot of music.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bushman Way of Tracking God

• “Now that you mention it - it was a driving rainstorm when we were in both of the towns!”

  San Jose de Garcia

• “The actual first phrase I heard when I moved to Chiapas in 1998 was when my daughters and I stepped off the plane at Tapachula out onto the tarmac in the middle of the night during a torrential rainstorm.”

  What Were The First Words or Phrases You Learned?

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