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rainy season in southern Asia when wind blows from the southwest- We didn't extend our trip to visit India because it was the start of the monsoon system.
monsoon = rainy season in southern Asia when wind blows from the southwest
- She had forgotten just how damp the monsoon air in Ayemenem could be.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- The monsoons came late to the desert, and I was glad.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- We were in the middle of a monsoon.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- All windows and doors were slammed tight shut, because this was monsoon rain, driving in, right across the country from the southwest.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- Maybe if she just waited out the monsoon.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- The final beat up before the monsoon had come.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- We normally don't have monsoons in Swat and at first we were happy, thinking the rain would mean a good harvest.Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- Monsoons could be ahead!Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- That was in the monsoon holidays, after he had taken the prize for mathematics.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- He heard the rumors and the mortars and felt the monsoon heat and heard the universal slogan of the war.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- A scandal that starts here and reverberates to East Washington will come back on us like a monsoon.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- But in early May, we hoped, the approach of the monsoon from the Bay of Bengal would force the jet stream north into Tibet.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- "The monsoon breaks up early this year," he remarked conversationally, somewhere behind me.Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
- The cats parted like clouds of dust in a monsoon, and an ancient man, gray-haired and white-bearded, moved through them to the beach.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- But all they've got in the Pacific is jungles and monsoons, I'd rot there.'Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- That could only mean the monsoon, blowing in from India.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- Couldn't even get television during monsoon.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- During the easterly monsoon season, birds of paradise lose the magnificent feathers around their tails that naturalists call 'below–the–wing' feathers.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- A monsoon swept in, soaking the tense and terrified boys.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
monsoon = rainy season in southern Asia
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