(Of weather) wet by periods of rain.
1 I recently read that Dublin has about 200 rainy days a year.
2 Retirement, rainy day - or merely a good idea at the time?
3 A good buy, then, and great reading over the rainy summer months.
4 Stan's encounter had happened on a rainy April evening two months ago.
5 Courting popularity in politics invariably takes precedence over planning for rainy days.
6 We lost one Veyron a week ago to a rainy English highway.
7 Mozambicans and Angolans are often victims of flooding during the rainy season.
8 A brief, rainy campaign, and greater security, is grim news for canvassers.
9 Photo: 123RF He was cycling in a tour group in rainy conditions.
10 They also are common after long dry spells followed by rainy periods.
11 The day was dark and rainy ; the landscape was a flat dreariness.
12 We're already worried about the rainy season from January onwards, he said.
13 The current rainy season is never the best time for troop movements.
14 The King's body was taken to the mausoleum on a rainy morning.
15 The rainy season in Thailand normally takes place from June to November.
16 It is my first visit; and it seems very dull and rainy .
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