Sentence examples for rainproof from inspiring English sources
But for now, unlike Wimbledon and the Australian Open, this United States Open still lacks a rainproof solution for delays and frustration.
But it will not be rainproof for ever.Simon Long: Banyan columnist, The Economist.
It was founded in 1823, by Glasgow-based chemist and inventor Charles Macintosh, who developed a solution of India rubber dissolved in the coal by-product naphtha, painted it on to cloth, sandwiched another layer on top and created the first rainproof fabric.
"Would you like to take a look inside?" David felt he had no choice, though the rain seemed to be intensifying and his Burberry was rain-resistant rather than rainproof.
"A nice, rainproof coat," Mrs. Hemingway said.
And the actress Emma Stone, a guest of the designer Alber Elbaz of Lanvin, wore a short pink dress made of rainproof plastic.
To say it is a welcome blast of cool air might be putting it literally, but as spring hots up, here's a drama that makes you want to get your woollies and rainproofs out again – proper wind-lashed, elemental cinema.
So asks our reader DianeOr, who cites as an example the description of tennis presses on page 4 (italics mine): They had been playing tennis, folowed by billards, and their racquets, rainproofed, screwed in their presses — the doctor's triangular, the other's quadrangular — lay on the parapet before them.
The bonding of formal and sporty and the literal fusion of seams for rainproofing was the story at Dries Van Noten, where colors hovered around black, navy and wine-dregs red.
But I will say this for rainproofing – it's cosy.
Once admitted, you cross a car park full of modest vehicles and, if you are lucky, glimpse one of the world-renowned health or poverty specialists working for the foundation, dressed in the confidently casual Seattle office uniform of chinos and rainproofs.
