Sentence examples for producing rain from inspiring English sources

Newspapers have breathlessly reported the launching of thousands of rocket shells filled with cigarette-size capsules of silver iodide, purportedly to seduce balky clouds into producing rain.

But did she really claim to produce rain to order?

Among them: the guy who produced "Rain Man" and "The Color Purple".

When this hotter air rises to higher altitudes, it cools, forming clouds that produce rain.

Primitive methods, such as rain dances or the throwing of pebbles into water, fail to produce rain.

The storm produced rain yesterday from the Gulf Coast to Missouri and Illinois, with snow and freezing rain falling in parts of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.

Cold fronts stalling above the state while moisture arrives from the gulf can produce rain, Dr. Nielsen-Gammon said.

3. Rainfall The slow forward movement of Isaac is also likely to produce rain in quantities comparable to Katrina.

Some supercells produce rain, lightning, hail and tornadoes; some produce no rain or lightning but pound crops with large hail; others produce floods and tornadoes but no lightning and hail.

When American chemists discovered that dry ice dropped into clouds produced snow, and that clouds seeded with silver iodide produced rain, they rhapsodized about ending drought.

They burned areas to raise fresh grass for animals, smoke out bees to collect honey or simply in the belief that the burning would produce rain.