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Recent Examples of raindropAt that point, the game seemed destined to end without a score as the weather devolved into wind and some raindrops here and there.—Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025 Droplets bouncing off surfaces are an everyday phenomenon, like raindrops bouncing off lotus leaves or water drops sizzling in a hot pan, levitating and sliding around—aka the Leidenfrost effect.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2025 So far, Bergvall and Gray have walked between the raindrops.—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025 The raindrops were like the kisses of a thousand women on the lips of her father.—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for raindrop
With tears welling in her eyes, Serena reveals where the commanders' flight to D.C. is departing from.
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EW.com,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
Ewing suffered a postseason-ending partial Achilles tear in Game 2 of that series, but the Knicks still managed to advance in six games thanks in large part to the late-game heroics of Johnson.
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Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
19 May 2025
This globular substance, shaped like a teardrop and unassuming in size, has been used by artists for millennia.
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Erik Zou,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Apr. 2025
In comparison to Bean's teardrop lineup, the 1,400-lb (635-kg) Bean Pod trades in the fiberglass shell for an aluminum body with overhanging rain gutters delivering leakproof performance.
Chen says clinical trials that evaluate droplets from many different patients will also be necessary to ensure the tests work with samples that have varying pH levels, white blood cell counts and fructose concentrations.
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Joanna Thompson,
Scientific American,
14 May 2025
If someone infected with pertussis coughs or sneezes, tiny droplets are released that contain the bacteria.
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