Sentence examples for cruel rain from inspiring English sources
In the predawn of Feb. 21, as a cruel rain mocked people who had fled from drought, five children died in an impromptu camp beside those slender towers, near the center of the city.
You don't need to have read John Ruskin on the pathetic fallacy to know that we make the weather "the stuff of nostalgia and dreads", and that if it were always warm, the blue skies and the sunshine would soon seem just as cruel as the rain and the cold.
For New Yorkers, the rain is a cruel encore to a harsh winter.
The nights are cool, a special blessing after a cruel summer of intense heat and very little rain.
The gunman "rained bullets in a very cruel and merciless way on innocent people who were there to celebrate New Year's and have fun," Sahin told reporters.
The tengu, thinking he is playing a cruel trick, then causes money or rice cakes to rain down on the gambler.
Agriculture remained significant in its economy but was not without setbacks; in the decade around 1870 farmers pushed out into semiarid country, hoping that rain would follow the plow, only to learn with cruel certainty that it did not.
It has made a speciality of finding cruel ways of getting eliminated from global tournaments, usually in rain-affected matches.
This might be because my upbringing, influenced by a famous northern city of rain-soaked humour, is all about ironic affection, cruel kindness and a natural suspicion of small talk.
We now live in the seat of a cruel, remorseless Empire which needs no credible justification for the violence it decides to rain down on the world.
