How to Use rainwater in a Sentence

rainwater

noun

• Otherwise, rainwater pools in the folds and the low spots.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
• Puddles spread across the whole street, and the bronze Tchaikovsky in his bronze chair sat in a small pool of rainwater.
  — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Scott also has a separate line and a rainwater barrel on the side of the house to give a soak to the rest of the plants.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• In some of the upstairs units, nails protrude from the floorboards, and rainwater falls from holes in the ceiling.
  — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
• On your street, take a look at the nearest catch basin and clear debris from the top to allow rainwater to flow in freely.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
• The water used to proof and distill the vodka comes from springs fueled by snow and rainwater.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023
• The woman in the well The body was pulled from a rainwater well on the forest grounds of a rural Belgian cottage in August 1991.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• The city's rainwater catchment basins have been so dry that one, the El Cristo basin, caught fire on Tuesday, burning through 75 acres.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• The wall had holes, which were likely used as part of sewage or rainwater systems, experts said.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
• The park stores large amounts of rainwater and prevents the surrounding streets from flooding.
  — Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
• Some of the rainwater is flooding rivers, flowing out to sea, and washing into storm drains.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
• The buckets are used to collect rainwater during the wet season.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Inside, a trash can collected dripping rainwater from a leak in the roof.
  — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• Lines for clean water can last hours, and some have turned to collecting rainwater.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• The natural salty minerals from land runoff into the rainwater and the ocean.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
• Two-week-old rainwater collects in a clear lake with young acacia trees sprouting from the center.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
• Lines for clean water can last hours, and some have turned to collecting rainwater, which in this semi-arid land is scarce, too.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Plastic buckets in the backyard collect the rainwater, however rare, that falls from spouts off the roof.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Water in the ground isn’t much use for irrigating pots, but your in-ground plants will love that reservoir of rainwater when things get dry.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• People scrambled to grab buckets, ready to fill them with rainwater.
  — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• At the same time, ground and rainwater have leaked in, creating more radioactive wastewater that now needs to be stored and treated.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 6 July 2023
• Since the whole resort is off-grid, the eco-conscious dwellings get all their power from the sun, while purified rainwater is used for drinking.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2023
• Instead of allowing rainwater to randomly run down to the street, the couple installed a dry riverbed of stones.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
• The basalt then reacts with rainwater to trap carbon dioxide in the air as a bicarbonate.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
• The rainwater rolls off the city’s hard, impermeable surfaces, rather than sinking into the ground.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
• The Rain Water scent is clean and invigorating, with drops of rainwater falling on leaves and filling the air.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2023
• Plants make waxes on their leaves composed of carbon and the hydrogen drawn from rainwater.
  — WIRED, 30 Nov. 2022
• The putrid rainwater that still covers thousands of square miles is standing with a savage stillness, a killer calm.
  — Nazish Brohi, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• There are swales to collect rainwater, a well for potable water, and solar panels to capture enough energy to power the house and sell the excess back to the grid.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• This can also include areas around our homes that collect rainwater, like tree holes, plant trays or old tires.
  — USA TODAY, 29 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024