rainwater

noun

rain·wa·ter ˈrān-ˌwȯ-tər

-ˌwä-

: water fallen as rain that has not collected soluble matter from the soil and is therefore soft

Examples of rainwater in a Sentence

a bucket filled with rainwater

Recent Examples on the Web Inside, a trash can collected dripping rainwater from a leak in the roof. —

Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023 Before getting running water, those residents had to haul water from the river or laundry to their home or collect rainwater. —

Mark Thiessen and Tom Brenner, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023 Collecting rainwater for your garden is easy with these rain barrels. —

Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023 Even a single southern magnolia leaf sitting on the ground can catch plenty of rainwater to allow a mama mosquito to fill your yard with a healthy gang of offspring. —

Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2023 Two men shook out the rainwater that had pooled inside their tent at the sprawling homeless encampment along Anchorage’s Third Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. —

Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023 Huss said rainwater is best, followed by spring water. —

Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023 Over millions of years, rainwater percolates through lithium-containing rocks, dissolves the metal, and carries it to underground aquifers. —

Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023 But Japan is running out of space to build more tanks to accommodate the contaminated groundwater and rainwater that are still exiting the site. —

Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023 See More

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