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On a cool December evening as raindrops polka-dotted the pavement, longtime street performer Onunze Ubaka, 72, crooned Motown classics to a virtually empty corner off the usually busy Jackson Square in the French Quarter.—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025 On one end is an image of poppies, while the other features a bird and raindrops falling from and into a hand.—Sierra Knoch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2025 The first raindrops begin to fall late morning into the early afternoon.—Rachael Jay, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025 His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 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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