Rainy
['reɪnɪ] or ['reni]
Definition
(a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Typed by Freddie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Showery, wet.
Edited by Babbage
Examples
- And she knew that under this dark and lonely bridge the young colliers stood in the darkness with their sweethearts, in rainy weather. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This was the party from which Little Dorrit went home, jaded, in the first grey mist of a rainy morning. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- By-and-by Jo roamed away upstairs, for it was rainy, and she could not walk. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She was aware of the rainy night behind him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lily flushed with the recollection of certain rainy Sundays at Bellomont and with the Dorsets. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was mild and rainy, resembling, in this respect, the night of the birthday--the twenty-first of June, last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- When I lost the rest, I thought it wise to say nothing about that sum, but to keep it secretly for a rainy day. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At the end of the rainy season, early in May, the laborers return to their task. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On a rainy day, even in a gently undulating country, we see the effects of subaerial degradation in the muddy rills which flow down every slope. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Rainy days I spend in the Louvre, revelling in pictures. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Rainier and commands a wonderful view of that mountain, on which there is situated one of the largest glacial systems in the world radiating from any single peak. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Inputed by Agnes