as in rain
a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity a torrential rainfall washed away most of the little sprouts in our vegetable garden

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Recent Examples of rainfall On Friday, Southern California fire chiefs warned that a season of devastating wildfires was likely amid low rainfall and dry conditions. Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025 Annual rainfall in Atlanta is 50 inches compared to our annual rainfall of 15 inches. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 June 2025 The nutrition content can change with shifts in rainfall and temperature too, though Hultgren and his colleagues didn’t account for this in their study. Umair Irfan, Wired News, 28 June 2025 In a timeline released on X, formerly Twitter, the weather service indicated the storms should be in the Kansas City area between 10 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday. Thunderstorms capable of producing gusty winds and very heavy rainfall are expected to spread southward tonight. Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for rainfall
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  • By Thursday evening, five inches of rain had fallen in parts of western Texas, including Midland and Odessa.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2025
  • The Guadalupe River has had a history of floods, with one of the most prominent incidents occurring in 1987, when five to 10 inches of rain fell in the upper headwaters of the river’s basin.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025

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“Rainfall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainfall. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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