The phrase "a chill rain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of rain that is cold and possibly uncomfortable, often evoking a sense of dreariness or discomfort.
Example: "As I walked through the park, a chill rain began to fall, making me wish I had brought an umbrella."
Alternatives: "a cold rain" or "a brisk rain".
The crowds in New Hampshire, where the kickoff began, were not terribly big, perhaps kept away from the outdoor rallies by a chill rain.
All were equally deserted in a chill rain this afternoon, although a group of camels and their masters at the Protestant field sat waiting for pilgrims replicating the visit of the Three Kings.
His fault during donor-gate was to look shifty, and to wait too long before releasing details of the party donors who had dined with him in Downing Street and Chequers, fuelling the sense that he had something to hide.Like a company of weary soldiers huddled in a chill rain, the British are not enjoying austerity and worse is to come.
A fog bank the color of tarnished pewter is rolling across the river mouth, preceded by a chill rain.
As the light waned and a soft chill rain began to fall, we pulled up at the face of South Sawyer Glacier -- a rippled crystalline curtain streaked with iridescent blue and pearly gray.
In these worrisome times, everybody could use a little help getting across the hard roads of life, and 10 people had come out in the chill rain on this night to help a slow parade of amphibians cross the hardest road of theirs.
Well, we were thinking that the calendar said spring — despite the season's early chill, rain and snow — and that our hiking boots were begging to be taken for a walk.
Energy development capitalizing on the high winds in the area — which quickly turned sunshine to chill rain one afternoon in late October — has injected sluggish rural communities with new economic lifeblood.
Marist College Chuckling at the chill rain that seemed to only increase in ferocity the longer he spoke, Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska urged 1,251 Marist College graduates yesterday to remember the innocence of their youth and not to believe that they were "immune to the forces of nature".
As it turned out, the guests were greeted by rain and slush in the far north, then by a chill and more rain in the Californian desert.If the weather is capable of surprising him, why should anyone trust Mr Smith's forecast for 2050?
AT the end of summer in Montclair, chill rains overflow the gutters and beat down on lawn chairs already folded for another season.
