How to Use monsoon in a Sentence

monsoon

noun

• More than anything, that monsoon helped the Bears in Week 1.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• This is an abrupt change from the past two years of wet monsoons that brought record-breaking rain to the state.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
• The Buckeye offense was going to rain points on the Big Ten like a monsoon.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022
• In the south of the country, rain was so rare that the region had its driest monsoon season since 1901, the IMD said.
  — Sibi Arasu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
• But the monsoon rarely sparks lightning in downtown San Diego.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• And a monsoon storm following the fire completely wiped out the creek.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• Nearly 1,700 people have been killed in the floods caused by heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022
• Water pours over in a 70-foot drop after snowmelt or monsoon storms.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• The fish have adapted to the harsh monsoon-to-drought cycles of the desert rivers that flood with melted mountain snowpack in the spring and are parched in the late summer.
  — Stephanie Mencimer, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2022
• Enlarge / Tracks of monsoon rain systems across the region.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2022
• The time to not go to Thailand is the rainy season, from May to October, when monsoons blow in from all directions.
  — Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2023
• Lund’s youngest, Shifa was born just as the monsoon rains began to batter their village.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• And now the monster monsoon of the decade is wreaking nonstop havoc throughout the country.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• Technically, the term monsoon is more about wind than rain.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• September is the last month of Arizona’s monsoon, and this year, the end of the driest monsoon on record, according to Young.
  — Audrey Eagerton, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2023
• May is the ideal time for tying to reach the top of Everest, with clear weather before the monsoon arrives from the south, bringing cloud and snow to the peaks and rain to the low lands.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 17 May 2023
• The Niners, meanwhile, will have a shot at redemption after falling to the Chicago Bears on the road in a monsoon.
  — Catena Media, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2022
• August is usually the peak month for monsoon storms, and the Valley is on the path to have a wetter later half to the monsoon season.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
• Moreover, Aruna was herself every bit the shade of monsoon clouds with a cascade of ringlets like the falling of nights that held the promise of laughter in them.
  — Longreads, 12 Jan. 2023
• All three share a dry climate, hot summers and uneven patterns of monsoon rains.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
• Pakistan blames climate change for the recent heavy monsoon rains that triggered floods.
  — Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• The country has seen three times the normal rainfall of the annual monsoon season, which began in June.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• One source of respite, the annual monsoon season, is missing.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• During monsoons, the eroded topsoil would bleed into the Bay of Bengal.
  — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• The scale of monsoon rains and floods in Pakistan this year, with costs assessed at $30 billion, gave momentum to their campaign.
  — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
• There are also commercial flights from Pokhara except in the monsoon.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2023
• During the annual monsoon, rivulets of water run down the streets and into the swollen Bagmati River.
  — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• But the scientists didn’t detect a role for climate change throughout the two-month monsoon season.
  — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2022
• Some who did lost crops again when drought returned in spring, after heavy monsoon rains in July and August, and when elk from the canyon raided their fields.
  — Tammy Webber and Martha Irvine, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
• Rainfall runoff from a recent monsoon flood carried it from the farm right into Wenden.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024