"streaks of rain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to emphasize the sudden changes in the direction of falling rain, or to describe sheets of rain that descend obliquely. For example: "We watched in awe as streaks of rain descended from the dark clouds."
Beyond it, the Pacific was glowering slightly, and low, ominous streaks of rain splattered the sky.
The last week of Susan Grossman's deafness began with flashes of lightning and streaks of rain, a silent movie of a storm that she watched through windows.
A horde of rats runs spitting out blood after being wacked by a broom woven with streaks of rain.
It runs to avoid a streak of rain that follows like the needle of a sewing machine then.
"Kitchen Stories," which opens today in New York and Los Angeles, is best in its first two-thirds, when the streaks of subdued peculiarity rain down at unexpected moments.
The drops of rain became streaks as in the soft, clicking comfort of the train the voices spoke: housewives, shopkeepers, shrews, Captain Cat — the blind retired sea captain dreaming of a strumpet, Rosie Probert ("Come on up, boys, I'm dead").
The drops of rain became streaks as in the soft, clicking comfort of the train the voices spoke: housewives, shopkeepers, shrews, Captain Cat the blind retired sea captain dreaming of a strumpet, Rosie Probert ("Come on up, boys, I'm dead").
It led to witnesses like Jasmine Anne Bell, who dodged streaks of flaming jet fuel raining down on her brother's driveway, stepping "back and back and back till I couldn't go any further because my back was against the wall".
While Baltimore's streak of at least 15 days of rain will surely be broken by next weekend, wet weather is expected to return for the 141st Preakness Stakes.
On the green metal face seven decades of rain have left dark streaks from the hairline down to the neck that look like ghostly post-match sweat.
Since the streak started there has been just 9.2mm of rain in Sydney.
