rainless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rainless
Adjective
  • The sky in Modesto and Sacramento is expected to be cloudless on Tuesday night, when the best galaxy viewing conditions begin, according to to the National Weather Service’s seven-day forecast.
    Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
  • The mountain peaks jetted into a cloudless Dodger-blue sky as the wind whipped and the waves beneath crested and crashed.
    Dan Woike, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Destroying forests creates deserts, sandstorms, dry riverbeds and arid croplands.
    Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • As a kid growing up in Hermosillo, the biggest city in the arid northern Mexican state of Sonora, Ruben Leal took the region’s signature flour tortillas for granted.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • The captain who guided the ship through the storm-not the one who sailed on sunny days.
    Roberta Matuson, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Here are ways to enjoy this sunny early summer weekend in Central Florida.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
  • In the Colorado River Basin, April and May were very dry.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Refinements since then pushed the output to 300 hp and 365 lb-ft, offering a mild edge over the outgoing engine, but a new six-speed automatic replacing the old four-speed one meant the SUV could make better use of the grunt on hand.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 5 June 2025
  • Our tester’s hair has mild dandruff and became flake-free after consistent use.
    Kayla Blanton, People.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • The South Coast Air Basin includes Orange County and non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • This prohibits wood burning both indoors and outdoors across Orange County and the non-desert areas of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Her sister’s sere hair went among the grasses; her head was full of the Child.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
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“Rainless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainless. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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