Sentence examples for like a rain from inspiring English sources

Patty's tears came on like a rain that starts unnoticeably but surprisingly soon soaks everything.

The scoreboard was more like a rain gauge, recording an inexorable increase in one monotonous direction.

It's like a rain situation, almost, except a little more irritating".

"In the spring," he said, "it looks like a rain forest in the Pacific Northwest".

She took a picture of a vest-pocket park on Delancey Street that made it look like a rain forest.

A grey box of a building – the Charing Cross hospital – looms like a rain cloud blocking out the sun.

It looks a bit like a rain-stained window, or the surface of a dark, weathered stone.

The silence spread out like a rain-swollen river, lapping against the walls of the room, mounting over their heads.

Graffiti sprouts like mushrooms after a rain.

What should a clean kitchen smell like, anyway -- a rain forest?

They seemed to spring up "like toadstools after a rain," as one commentator put it.