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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "monsoon" in a sentence

    monsoon example sentences

    monsoon


    1. But unlike the monsoon seasons of Nepal, you want to be as predictable as the thunder clap after the lightning


    2. I hope this letter finds you in good health and that the monsoon season has now ended


    3. That's when the tears turn to monsoon rains


    4. They were delayed there for a week by monsoon, there was nothing to do but women with the beach rained out


    5. “The monsoon has departed now, the waters have subsided and our land is fully fed


    6. From this time until about 7,500 the Sahara was green with Monsoon Rains


    7. countries or nations in the world there used to be a double monsoon climate, I know


    8. double monsoon climate in most years


    9. The puppies had to suffer cold, storm, monsoon like rainfall and temperatures below 10


    10. The primary wave had dashed high into the air, most of which lapsed back with only a small remainder descending upon them like a monsoon spray of moisture

    11. monsoon season; the return of the rains that would,


    12. The northeast monsoon season would soon be starting


    13. When the monsoon fails, it is then that the parched land of my village, Kashipur, clamours for rain to quench its thirst, to keep the bareness at bay and produce some wheat so that I am able to feed my family


    14. Monsoon clouds blanketed the city the following morning, threatening a deluge and fraying tempers


    15. in the middle of a monsoon


    16. distance from an early evening monsoon storm that had been building up on the horizon


    17. Nobody escaped from the ongoing drought and the bad Monsoon


    18. to be the Monsoon season in Rome that month, it rained all the time and


    19. ‘A north-west monsoon seems to be building up in the BJP’s favour,’ is how I described on television the election mood after the assembly elections


    20. Unhappy as a lion in a monsoon

    21. The tragedy, which occurred in Asia, was caused by a monsoon hurri-


    22. ‘Does it augur well that the monsoon too has set in today? Won’t that portend women pouring in into my bed as it were? True, this Kantha cannot hold a candle to Roopa, but didn’t she set the whole bed on fire, many times over


    23. The monsoon rains had started again


    24. The monsoon rain poured down relentlessly


    25. We’d greened up with the monsoon rains during the summer, but things had dried out again and would stay that way through the winter


    26. poor monsoon this year


    27. He loved the monsoon


    28. ‘The monsoon is almost over


    29. father in this business, profit was as unpredictable as monsoon but my father would sleep well


    30. Short holiday! In the slums, in the sweltering heat, in the monsoon

    31. Its rate of flow varies greatly according to the monsoon rains, which cause it to swell considerably in late spring


    32. "It is well," he answered, "the monsoon will soon bring the ivory ships hither, then


    33. During the easterly monsoon season, birds of paradise lose the magnificent feathers around their tails that naturalists call 'below–the–wing' feathers


    34. He had doubled the cape a few odd times and weathered a monsoon, a kind of wind, in the China seas and through all those perils of the deep there was one thing, he declared, stood to him or words to that effect, a pious medal he had that saved him


    35. It looked just like the day after that legendary bout in Kinshasa, possibly due to the fact that Obinze, the man in charge of the premises, had seen the fight live as a small boy and had afterwards run around in the liberating monsoon rain shouting “Ali Bomaye!” That double-time canter was not just his happiest memory, it also marked what he called the last moment of “the days of innocence”


    36. In Burma, the British and their Australian, New Zealand, and Indian troops had to retreat over 900 miles to reach India before the monsoon


    37. Prevailing winds create variation between winter and summer with the dry season (rain once a day) and the monsoon (continuous rain)


    38. In southeast Asia, winds from the Indian Ocean bring monsoon, but it is dry when the wind blows from the landmass of China


    39. Monsoon weather is always bad, but in 1963 it broke all records


    40. If a monsoon does not start at the expected time, or a hot dry summer produces a parching of the earth, take precautions by storing as much water as possible and using it wisely

    41. Even in areas of heavy rainfall, such as Assam, there has been drought when the monsoon has failed


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    "monsoon" definitions

    a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter


    rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains


    any wind that changes direction with the seasons