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As fat raindrops sent onlookers scurrying for cover, the two course partners finished with respective 66 and 67 scores on the day and knotted at six-under atop the early leaderboard.—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 June 2025 With two on and two outs, Max Muncy lofted a high pop-up into the wind and thick raindrops – at least one the size of a baseball.—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 26 June 2025 As the first looks emerged, raindrops fell, then lightning cracked crisply across the sky.—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 26 June 2025 And while a few raindrops fell, the weather was a nonissue.—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 15 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for raindrop
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of raindrop was
before the 12th century
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