How to Use raindrop in a Sentence
raindrop
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The stronger the gravity, the smaller the size of the raindrop.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
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With clouds and some raindrops around highs are mainly in the low or mid-70s.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
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Don’t give up your style when the raindrops begin to fall.
—Caitlin Flynn, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2018
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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
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Instead, the air was doused in raindrops that sloppied the track for the highly skilled LAFC.
—Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 29 June 2019
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The steady staccato of raindrops wakes me in the morning.
—Melanie Radzicki McManus, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2019
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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
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Stencils in the shapes of clouds, flowers and raindrops (included in the book) can be used to help the process along.
—Catherine Hong, New York Times, 2 June 2017
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The roll-up side cotton duck curtains work and may even stop a raindrop or two.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
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The wind wants your car to look like a raindrop, and anything else is a compromise.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2018
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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
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Showers should tend to stay south, but a random raindrop can’t be ruled out, as highs reach the mid-60s.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
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Overnight, only the slightest chance for a few stray raindrops.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
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The sun was shining Saturday and there was not a raindrop in sight.
—Deena Lawley-Dixon, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
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People in Montana, as well as the Dakotas, will have to deal with cloudy skies and a few raindrops.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
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Lil Nas’ logo then forms from the raindrops and glows a shade of gold and holographic hue.
—Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 2 Jan. 2024
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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
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Some fans settle on the hillside that faces the stage, where they're pelted by raindrops.
—Greg Bishop, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2017
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The last day of March, the end of a cold weather quarter, would hold any raindrops in readiness and reserve.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
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With so many in need, aid that does arrive can disappear like a raindrop in the sand.
—Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
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They are caused by light reflecting twice off the same raindrops.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
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Sure enough the raindrops started falling right when the curtain would have gone up.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
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Shota stares out the window, tapping his pencil along with the raindrops.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
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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
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Each one of us is a nameless raindrop among countless drops.
—Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
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Mark Spiro composed the score and sound, which envelops the story in raindrops and probing bass notes.
—Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
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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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Her gut clenched every time a raindrop bounced off a rosebush leaf.
—Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
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The truck sends out a narrow beam of radar waves that hit objects flying through the air, everything from raindrops to two-by-fours.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2024
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While there are a couple of chances for raindrops ahead, none seem likely to deliver much, and clearer skies should dominate.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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