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Example sentences for "heavy rains"

  • The millets thrive in the hot summer climates; they survive when the available soil moisture is reduced to a low limit, and they grow vigorously when the heavy rains come.

  • The greatest supply comes when the streams are so flooded by heavy rains or melting snows that the river channel is no longer able to hold the water, which then rises above the banks, overflowing the surrounding country.

  • How do clover roots protect the land from the effects of heavy rains?

  • It was difficult to select a camping-place, as the valley would become mud in the event of heavy rains.

  • Also, an overflowing or flood from rivers and torrents after heavy rains or the melting of mountain snows.

  • The channels worn on the face of mountains by heavy rains.

  • Ginger is a delicate plant, and very liable to rot, particularly if planted in too rich a soil, or where it may be subject to heavy rains.

  • The plants in nurseries must be well sheltered from the sun and heavy rains, but the plants are strengthened by the covers being removed at night when heavy rains are not expected to fall, and in the day time when only light rains prevail.

  • Floods of considerable violence have also been produced on Etna by the fall of heavy rains, aided, probably, by the melting of snow.

  • The tributaries of this river run in very different directions, and some of them are swollen principally by the melting of the snows about their sources, others almost exclusively by heavy rains.

  • I would not trust the largest farther than the range of vision; they are deceptive all of them, the offsprings of heavy rains, and dependent entirely on local circumstances for their appearance and existence.

  • This is, in general, a region of light and variable winds, heavy rains, and thunderstorms.

  • Heavy rains in the first week of June, 1954, and again in the first week of August, resulted in the production of two successive crops of young so widely spaced that they were easily distinguishable.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heavy rains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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