Sentence examples for horizontal rain from inspiring English sources
I'd expected horizontal rain.
We could hear the horizontal rain drumming the tent flaps.
This is what we got: driving horizontal rain (freezing); cyclonic winds (freezing); nasty, choppy, steel-grey water (freezing).
In horizontal rain, we zigzagged up the well-named Devil's Staircase with legs burning, heading away from Glen Coe.
Previous attempts have been foiled by extreme weather, from 90mph winds and whiteout conditions to horizontal rain and shrouding cloud.
Charley was a brutal reminder of the power of hurricanes -- the steamrolling winds, the storm-spawned tornadoes, the deluge of horizontal rains.
To this end, the horizontal rainfall, the wind-driven rain and the run-off water are measured.
A polka dot raincoat over your party frock can keep it dry as you wait an hour for the cab to the party in horizontal "hard" rain.
My childhood was a constant struggle to reduce the drudgery in daily visits to the well a quarter of a mile away, my arms aching, the buckets chafing my legs and the horizontal Hebridean rain strafing my poor little face.
Most of the steady showers had not been particularly heavy, or borne on any wind, but last week there had come a sud- den stirring and then a blast through the treetops and a nearly horizontal blinding rain.
