Sample Sentences for
precipitation
(editor-reviewed)

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    Meg tried to catch the precipitation on her tongue, which I thought a very ineffective way to get a drink—and of dirty water, no less.  (source)
    precipitation = rain
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    Thus, the very precipitation that might have soured the evening, instead lends it an aura of magic.  (source)
    precipitation = rain, snow, hail, or sleet
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    Temperatures will fall rapidly, and precipitation should start around dusk.  (source)
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    Indianapolis winters rarely feature the sort of beautiful snow that you can ski and sled in; our usual winter precipitation is a conglomeration called "wintry mix," involving ice pellets, frozen rain, and wind.  (source)
    precipitation = rain, snow, hail, or sleet
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    ...compulsively checking the London weather on my phone, 53 degrees Fahrenheit, 10:12 p.m. and light precipitation,  (source)
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    He had never experienced precipitation like in the South Pacific.  (source)
    precipitation = rain
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    Farming is always a chancy business, but in west-era Kansas its practitioners consider themselves "born gamblers," for they must contend with an extremely shallow precipitation (the annual average is eighteen inches) and anguishing irrigation problems.  (source)
    precipitation = rain, snow, hail, or sleet
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    The linguists Ute Fischer and Judith Orasanu once gave the following hypothetical scenario to a group of captains and first officers and asked them how they would respond: You notice on the weather radar an area of heavy precipitation 25 miles ahead.  (source)
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    He knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light-to-heavy precipitation because that would rob the police of evidence.  (source)
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    The next, all shattered to meteor precipitation.†  (source)
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    Nelson says every person in the village is to be there, required precipitation.†  (source)
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    I would have seized him, but he eluded me and quitted the house with precipitation.†  (source)
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    In the air a fine, caressing "precipitation" was shining.†  (source)
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    The people left them on Sunday night with panic and precipitation.  (source)
    precipitation = great haste
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    Americans watching from a dozen hillsides and promontories around the town could see, as Washington wrote, streets full of "great movements and confusion among the troops night and day ...in hurrying down their cannon, artillery, and other stores to the wharves with utmost precipitation."  (source)
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