It was raining hard at the time--a thing so common in Ireland that no one mentions it any more than they do the fact of the daily paper appearing each morning--and the unfortunate victim had an umbrella up, so the mob could not see his face.
Sir, if it were raining livings, the utmost I could do would be to lend you an umbrella.
It was rainingagain when Pollyanna got up the next morning, and a northeast wind was still whistling down the chimney.
It was still raining when we started in the morning, so that there were no views.
On returning to Kharta, where I had left Heron, I found that it had been raining all the time, though in the main valley we had had it quite fine.
It had begun raining big, splashing drops about half-past four o'clock.
It's a bargain--that is, some day when it's raining good and hard and nothing else to do.
Besides you said you would not call this morning unless the weather were fine, and you see for yourself that it is now raining cats and dogs.
A negro who was having one misfortune after another said he was having as bad luck as the man with only a fork when it was raining soup.
Amidst the gold raining from the sun, a fresh breeze came down from the mountains.
All the time the shrapnel was popping overhead and raining bullets about, and, just as the gas began to pour over my parapet, a bullet knocked my rifle out of my hand, and I slipped in the mud as I jumped back and went down in a heap.
I certainly am glad it isn't raining or hailing or snowing this morning," began Mrs. Tate, shaking out the gown of unbleached cotton on which she had been supposedly sewing during the past season.
It has turned almost cold, and raining hard, and here you are sitting by an open window!
In the afternoon I went upon the river: it raining hard upon the water, I put ashore and sheltered myself, while the King come by in his barge, going down towards the Downes to meet the Queene: the Duke being gone yesterday.
He knew that while it might be raining today, the chances were several to one against its raining tomorrow.
It was still raining and the cold wind whistled down from the mountains.
It has been raining this morning, and now there is palest sunlight through veils of mist.
For it's raining and dull, and I can't go out of doors, and so I must have something to occupy me, must I not?
One of us was fighting blindly, raining down aimless blows, I know not which, but I think it must have been Hamilton, for he presently sank in my arms, limp and helpless as a sick child.
And with tears raining from my eyes, I hastened away from what was too sacred for any ear but a pitying God's.
It was raining very hard, and the mud and darkness of the night made our progress very slow.
The two previous days it had been raining most of the time, and the roads were terrible, though on the evening of the 28th it bid fair for dry weather, which gave us strong hopes of better times.
It was raining a little, so I held over us the big umbrella, which grannie had sent, while we discussed the weather, to the effect that rain was badly needed and was a great novelty nowadays, and it was to be hoped it would continue.
It wasraining at reveille call and still raining when call was sounded at 9:30 o'clock for a hike.
It rained the first night in camp and it kept raining almost continuously during the two months the battery spent at range practice.
It was raining heavily when the battery arrived at Lux.
Sunday, January 12th, it wasraining when the troops answered reveille at 5 o'clock.
Soon after the engineer reported that the engines would not work; the vessel became unmanageable; it was raining heavily, and the fog was so dense that it was impossible to make out their situation.
It was more than half-past eleven o’clock, and raining quite hard, and the wind had begun to rise.
No,” answered Lucia, with the tears raining down her cheeks, “he says that he is not coming.
It has been raining all the afternoon,--it is raining still.
It has been raining cats and dogs, and Folkestone is what some people would call dreary.
It has been raining cats and dogs here, and the Tiber rose 40 feet and inundated the low grounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
