How to Use raindrop in a Sentence

raindrop

noun
  • Black raindrops fell onto my lips.
    Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Most of these raindrops did not reach the ground, but some broke through and more will to do so.
    Sean MacAday 13, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026
  • As the first looks emerged, raindrops fell, then lightning cracked crisply across the sky.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 26 June 2025
  • Her gut clenched every time a raindrop bounced off a rosebush leaf.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
  • They are caused by light reflecting twice off the same raindrops.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • The raindrops are called chondrules.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In one, raindrops spark like fireflies against a marsh muted by a storm.
    Amy Paige Condon, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
  • The roll-up side cotton duck curtains work and may even stop a raindrop or two.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
  • Overnight, only the slightest chance for a few stray raindrops.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • With clouds and some raindrops around highs are mainly in the low or mid-70s.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • If the virus came in the form of a raindrop, parts of our country would still be getting drenched.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Those big fat raindrops kiss the ocotillo, dance among saguaro spines and water our vast herd of lizards.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The wind can turn raindrops into a constant barrage of tiny darts.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The wind wants your car to look like a raindrop, and anything else is a compromise.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2018
  • With so many in need, aid that does arrive can disappear like a raindrop in the sand.
    Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Sure enough the raindrops started falling right when the curtain would have gone up.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • And that upward boost means more water vapor turns to raindrops.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018
  • In front of them hung a curtain of gray raindrops, one that in many places carried a faint hint of pale green.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • At times, a gray curtain, composed of falling raindrops hung over the city.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • The stronger the gravity, the smaller the size of the raindrop.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Shota stares out the window, tapping his pencil along with the raindrops.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Some fans settle on the hillside that faces the stage, where they're pelted by raindrops.
    Greg Bishop, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The guy who won’t take a raindrop for his own kid is going to take a bullet for someone else’s kid?
    People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The raindrops were like the kisses of a thousand women on the lips of her father.
    Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The sun was shining Saturday and there was not a raindrop in sight.
    Deena Lawley-Dixon, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Such figures were not to be ignored, nor were a few morning raindrops and a little fog.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The main salon is vast and zen-like, with a giant raindrop sculpture in its center.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 July 2021
  • But Chapman could not grip the ball well amid all the raindrops and walked the leadoff hitter.
    Seth Berkman, New York Times, 28 June 2016
  • Lil Nas’ logo then forms from the raindrops and glows a shade of gold and holographic hue.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Oh, and no show cancellations for raindrops this time — the Gang goes on rain or shine.
    New York Times, 14 June 2018

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