How to Use raindrop in a Sentence

raindrop

noun
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  • The stronger the gravity, the smaller the size of the raindrop.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
  • With clouds and some raindrops around highs are mainly in the low or mid-70s.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Don’t give up your style when the raindrops begin to fall.
    — Caitlin Flynn, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • Instead, the air was doused in raindrops that sloppied the track for the highly skilled LAFC.
    — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 29 June 2019
  • The steady staccato of raindrops wakes me in the morning.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The roll-up side cotton duck curtains work and may even stop a raindrop or two.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
  • The wind wants your car to look like a raindrop, and anything else is a compromise.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Overnight, only the slightest chance for a few stray raindrops.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The sun was shining Saturday and there was not a raindrop in sight.
    — Deena Lawley-Dixon, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Lil Nas’ logo then forms from the raindrops and glows a shade of gold and holographic hue.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 2 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Some fans settle on the hillside that faces the stage, where they're pelted by raindrops.
    — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • With so many in need, aid that does arrive can disappear like a raindrop in the sand.
    — Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • They are caused by light reflecting twice off the same raindrops.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Sure enough the raindrops started falling right when the curtain would have gone up.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Shota stares out the window, tapping his pencil along with the raindrops.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Each one of us is a nameless raindrop among countless drops.
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Mark Spiro composed the score and sound, which envelops the story in raindrops and probing bass notes.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Oh, and no show cancellations for raindrops this time — the Gang goes on rain or shine.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • Her gut clenched every time a raindrop bounced off a rosebush leaf.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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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