Sentence examples for rare rain from inspiring English sources

Sheikh Mohammed carried the torch on a horse in a sudden rare rain shower that was taken as a sign of good fortune.

They stay in dammusi, Arab-inspired houses with rock walls two feet thick and domed roofs designed to capture the rare rain in a cistern.

And I come from a city that lies below the sea level, and is very fragile in the face of the rare rain – people in some neighbourhoods have been thrown out of their homes because of the water.

PAGE A4 A Rare Rain for Los Angeles The first significant storm in nearly a year soaked Los Angeles, a city that had all but forgotten how to turn on its windshield wipers.

I didn't know anything about the Wilsons except that Mr. Wilson was an accountant, which didn't foretell a particularly exciting life for this kid, who had already seen, and not yet a week old, two states and a rare rain in the desert that not many people not living in the desert would ever see.

It's like making a "Stop the Destruction of the Rainforests" building out of 500 rare rain forest trees.

When Jekyll first feels the effects of the potion he has isolated from a rare rain-forest flower that "allows the soul to separate," the scene is strangely lovely.

After the rare rains, runoff drags heavy metals, pesticides, cigarette butts, animal waste and other pollutants into streams and rivers and eventually to the Pacific Ocean, turning Los Angeles County's beaches into the filthiest in the state.

Many desert dwellers survive by following the rare rains or burrowing during the day.

Some animals remain in a state of dormancy for long periods, ready to become active again when the rare rains fall.

In a year like this one — incredibly rare — the rain falls as grass, and the grass grows as cattle.