adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the rainy/wet/dry season (= when the weather is rainy, wet, dry etc )
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In the rainy season, roads became a quagmire.
wet/rainy
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I’m so sick of this wet weather.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
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As fro Billy, he never said much about that rainy day , the last of Auntie's life.
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But the result is satisfying and soulful, perfect rainy day fare.
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We should have been putting money by for a rainy day because that rainy day came.
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You know how your daddy tells you to put some of your money away for a rainy day ?
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The mortgage traders offset the losses with profits they had squirreled away for a rainy day .
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It was a rainy day , a bad day in the heart.
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The groundbreaking was June 7, a rainy day in the Delta.
days
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I used them on many rainy days , and never once suffered from wet feet.
night
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One rainy night when car windows were sealed against me I came back soaked and with not a single sale to report.
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About a week later Lilly got a phone call in the middle of a rainy night .
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We spent a rainy night back at good old Lima.
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Following a rainy night , with only three casualties, one black and two whites, the riot ended.
season
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During the rainy season , Motabeng was subjected to a type of desert rain.
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When to go: To avoid the rainy season , travel mid-December to mid-May.
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Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.
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It was shallow, except during the rainy season .
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In the rainy season it offers little protection.
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The best time to hunt is during the August rainy season , when he fetches several a night.
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During the two months of the rainy season , they may do so every day.
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I asked if she came here often, and commented on the rainy season .
weather
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The rainy weather had subsided into clear stillness and there was a slight frost lying across the fields.
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When the break in the dull, rainy weather came I decided on a day's search of the river foreshore.
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He is really surprised that some people left the Lake District disgusted by the rainy weather .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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One rainy night when car windows were sealed against me I came back soaked and with not a single sale to report.
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People in rainy maritime climates call it just water, and complain when it falls from heaven.
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Some 600 Boston University journalism students had braved a rainy Friday night in 1976 to hear a panel discussion on investigative reporting.
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The groundbreaking was June 7, a rainy day in the Delta.
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The morning was damp, though not rainy , the grey day just beginning.
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Who owns the whole rainy , stony earth?