Sample sentences for PRECIPITATION

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Definition

rain, snow, hail, or sleet

Specialized Definitions of precipitation:

meteorology:  the measure of moisture from clouds in a given area for a given period of time

chemistry:  the process of forming a chemical precipitate (particles separated within a solution)

Less common senses include:
    an unexpected acceleration or hastening
    too fast — typically indicating carelessness
    throwing down or falling from a height

No precipitation is expected.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers

It was a foolish precipitation last Christmas, but the evil of a few days may be blotted out in part.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
This precipitation—this unusual appointment.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
The next, all shattered to meteor precipitation.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
The people left them on Sunday night with panic and precipitation.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
I would have seized him, but he eluded me and quitted the house with precipitation.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
Precipitation might spoil things.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
But every day the paper said: No precipitation expected.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
In the air a fine, caressing "precipitation" was shining.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Pansy would never defy her father, he might depend on that; so nothing was to be gained by precipitation.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
Nelson says every person in the village is to be there, required precipitation.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Milady was about to cry out, "Immediately," but she reflected that such precipitation would not be very gracious toward d'Artagnan.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
He had been seeking a precipitation test for the diagnosis of syphilis which should be quicker and simpler than the Wassermann.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Temperatures will fall rapidly, and precipitation should start around dusk.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Eight to twelve inches of precipitation was expected.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
Cora, already regretting her precipitation, was obliged to comply, for Magua instantly left the spot, and approached his gluttonous comrades.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
In a few moments she recovered from her breathless headlong precipitation.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
Pansy would never defy her father, he might depend on that; so nothing was to be gained by precipitation.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
He had never experienced precipitation like in the South Pacific.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
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.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

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