All 12 Uses of
monsoon
in
Running in the Family
- The Nuwara Eliya Tennis Championships had ended and there were monsoons in Colombo.†
p. 37.1 *
- And so, while monsoon and heat moved into deserted Colombo homes, it was to Nuwara Eliya that my grandparents and their circle of friends would go.†
p. 40.1monsoon = rainy season in southern Asia when wind blows from the southwest
- The Monsoon Meet in May, the Hakgalle Stakes in February, the Nuwara Eliya Cup in August.†
p. 50.8
- The building has stood here for over three hundred years, in the palm of monsoons, through seasonal droughts and invasions from other countries.†
p. 67.9
- MONSOON NOTEBOOK (i)†
p. 69.0monsoon = rainy season in southern Asia when wind blows from the southwest
- He works fast to reach his quota
before the maniac monsoon.†p. 88.5
- The blind would
stumble certain of whom they approached
though you might bathe
under rain gutters, monsoon.†p. 95.8
- MONSOON NOTEBOOK (ii)†
p. 135.0
- And now, 4o years later, in early May, on the verge of monsoon weather, I have come here to visit my half-sister Susan and her husband Sunil.†
p. 165.5
- Susan moves up and down halls to the kitchens, organizing meals, reorganizing after the chaos of the first monsoon storm (burned out fuse-boxes, knocked down telephone wires, chicken wires, dismantled gardens).†
p. 167.0
- MONSOON NOTEBOOK (iii)†
p. 190.0
- During the monsoon, on my last morning, all this Beethoven and rain.†
p. 203.9
Definition:
rainy season in southern Asia when wind blows from the southwest; or the winds that bring the rainy season
or (less commonly):
any heavy rain
or (less commonly):
any heavy rain