50 Rain Sentences To Help Increase Your Writing And Speaking Skill

Do you enjoy the rain? Even if you don’t, here are 50 rain sentences to help practice and improve your English with. 

We will use different verb tenses, adjectives, and also prepositions to make sentences on rain. Also, we will look at a paragraph on rainy days, along with a rainy season essay. The weather is a fascinating topic. Did you know that every minute, 1 billion tons of water falls to earth? The weather never fails to fascinate. 

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Rain sentences and words to describe rain

When we want to make English sentences, it is obviously useful to know a variety of expressions and vocabulary. Here we will go over 20 words to describe rain. We will look at 10 adjectives and 10 prepositions, and then make some rain sentences using them.

heavy	light	cold	loud	showery
drizzly	freezing	torrential	bouncy	welcome

on	in	around	over	between
across	beside	under	against	at

1. It looks like we are going to have heavy rain later on because the clouds are so dark.
2. Today’s forecast is for light rain, clearing up later.
3. You will feel cold if you go outside in this rain without a coat on.
4. The raindrops are very loud on this tin roof!
5. Where I live in April, it is very often showery.
6. When the weather is drizzly, I sometimes feel down. Gray and wet weather isn’t fun!
7. This rain is freezing. I’m surprised it’s not turning into snow!
8. We had torrential rain all night long. My lawn is absolutely waterlogged.
9. I kind of like it when we have heavy rain because it looks bouncy on our driveway. The raindrops seem to bounce up a few centimeters off the ground!
10. This week’s rainfall was very welcome. Our garden is parched.
11. The raindrops on my car sound really loud.
12. In Japan, June is often a very rainy month.
13. The raindrops are falling all around me.
14. It’s raining here, but over there the sun is shining!
15. It is the rainy season between March and April.
16. If you look across the road, you’ll see a huge puddle from all that rainfall.
17. Don’t stand beside the road, a car will splash you. Have you seen the size of the puddles?
18. Let’s wait on this bridge until the rain subsides.
19. The rain is lashing against the windows.
20. According to the weather forecast, it is going to start raining at 3 o’clock.

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Rain past tense: Let’s make rain sentences that have finished

The simple past tense refers to an event that has completely ended. For instance, I talked to him. Let’s now have a look at 10 rain sentences in the past tense. 

1. It rained all day yesterday.
2. After the rain, the colossal rainbow surprised me.
3. I walked all the way home in the rain today.
4. Because it rained last night, our garden lawn is very squishy today!
5. I did my homework because I couldn’t go out due to the rain.
6. I stayed indoors all day today because it was raining outside.
7. It rained a lot this week. It is unusual for this area.
8. I slept well, due to the sound of the rain last night.
9. I bought an umbrella on the weekend, as the rainy season is approaching.
10. I got really wet walking in the rain. Next time I should remember my umbrella!

Present perfect: Let’s make sentences on rain that are yet to be finished

The present perfect tense is very handy-it allows us to talk about something that started in the past, but is yet to finish. For instance, I have worked there for three months. It also lets us describe experiences in our life that we have had, so far. For example, I have been to Jamaica twice. We shall now go over 10 rain sentences using the present perfect.

1. It has rained for four hours now.
2. He has gone home because of the rain
3. We have watched the rain for a few hours.
4. We have been in the rain for a while.
5. We have all felt chilly today because of the rain.
6. He has become hungry because of the cold and wet weather.
7. My dog has played in the rain.
8. They have gone to the shops, even though we have rain today.
9. Emma has sung four songs so far in the rain!
10. The farmer has worked in the rain all day.

Past continuous: Let’s make sentences on rain that were happening

The past continuous is used often in English conversation. A good explanation of it can be found here. Let’s now make some past continuous rain sentences.

1.  I was playing football when the rain began.
2. They were playing in the puddles for a while.
3. The man was driving dangerously on the wet roads.
4. Emma was setting up her tent in the rain.
5. Liam was making a snowman when the weather changed to rain. Bad luck!
6. The children were dancing in the rain.
7. They were enjoying the sunny weather, after the previous heavy rainfall.
8. We were working in the garden when it started to rain.
9. The birds were singing, but then stopped when it began to rain.
10. They were walking to school when it started raining.

A rainy day paragraph: Plenty of sentences on rain

Some of my students get regular writing assignments, such as composing a paragraph on a topic. Here we will look at an example: a rainy day paragraph. Please feel free to use this as inspiration for your own paragraphs and rain sentences. By the way, it was quite a large paragraph so I split it up into two:

Many people don’t like it when it rains, but for me, it’s usually quite an enjoyable time. There are many rainy day activities that I like to take part in. The first of these is playing board games with my family. Nowadays with so many phones, tablets, and video games, I think people are quite distracted. Many people don’t like it when it rains, but for me, it’s usually quite an enjoyable time.

It’s very refreshing to play a good old-fashioned board game. I feel that it helps communication within the family. Another rainy day activity I enjoy doing is watching a good movie in front of the TV with some popcorn. There is nothing more relaxing than that! Just because the weather is bad outside, it doesn’t mean you have to have a boring time indoors.

Rainy season essay: Things to do in the rain

An essay is often a long piece of writing, but we can also compose short or brief essays. Here is an example. There will be a short introduction, a main topic, and a conclusion. There will be just three paragraphs, including plenty of rain sentences!

I am going to talk a little bit about the rainy season, and things to do in the rain. Where I live, we have a rainy season each year. It is usually warm and humid during this time. We get long steady downpours of rain. Occasionally the clouds part for a day or two and it’s sunny. This is a really refreshing time, and I venture outside as much as possible then.

But, when the rain doesn’t seem to end, there are still lots of things to do in our free time. The first of these is walking. I know, walking in the rain? It doesn’t sound like much fun. What I do is I go to one of the shopping malls in my area, and walk around. Malls these days are so large that you can get quite a lot of exercise. After that, you can easily pick up the daily groceries there.

Another thing I like to do in the rain is just listen and relax. It is a kind of meditation for me. I have a large outdoor area next to my house, with a roof. A kind of veranda. So I like to sit, listen and watch the rain. It’s really refreshing. if the weather isn’t too bad, meaning the rain isn’t too heavy, I like to sketch and work on my art projects when it’s raining. The sound of the rain in my ears sometimes gives me inspiration.

Another thing I enjoy doing is playing board games with my family. Because people tend to stay indoors when the rain is heavy, it gives us a chance to spend time together.

In summary, I enjoy The rainy season. There are several activities I enjoy taking part in. from mall walking to meditation, to just playing board games with friends or family. The rainy season allows time for all of this.

50 rain sentences, a paragraph, and an essay

I hope you have enjoyed reading through all these rain sentences. Remember if we are using the simple past tense, we should use an “ed” ending regular verb, or irregular verbs such as swam or drank. If we are going to use the present perfect, we need to use has or have. And, if we want to make English sentences with the past continuous, we should use a past tense verb along with “ing”.  Also, please feel free to use the rainy season essay and the rainy day paragraph as inspiration for your own writing assignments!