Rainwater

"Rainwater" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The rainwater runs off through this pipe.

The bucket was full of rainwater.

The rainwater evaporates on a hot day.

Last month, we collected five liters of rainwater.

Rainwater is pure.

Rivulets of rainwater ran down the roof.

This house has a rainwater collection system.

As for washing dishes, Mr. Harrison never made any pretence of doing it unless a rainy Sunday came. Then he went to work and washed them all at once in the rainwater hogshead, and left them to drain dry.

It's illegal to collect rainwater in this city.

Tom has a barrel to catch rainwater that he uses to water his garden.

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In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.

Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.

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