How to Use monsoon in a Sentence

monsoon

noun
  • And one of them was in a monsoon.
    — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The monsoon isn’t done with Phoenix just yet.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The storm is the first since the monsoon ended last month.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This means that patterns of monsoon rains are changed as well.
    — Jackson Dill and Brandon Miller, CNN, 23 Mar. 2021
  • But the monsoon rain could hit this weekend and could flood the caves again.
    — Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, 7 July 2018
  • Last year marked one of the driest monsoon seasons on record.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • But that's typical for a monsoon, very hit and miss.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Summer monsoons can wash out hikes, while winter brings too much cold for the trails.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
  • Summers that pummeled the plants with monsoon-like rains?
    — Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
  • This is an abrupt change from the past two years of wet monsoons that brought record-breaking rain to the state.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
  • Every day is like summer, at the end of this long monsoon season.
    — Horatio Clare, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2026
  • The African monsoon season is stronger than normal this year.
    — USA Today, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The monsoon season had begun, but there was nowhere to shelter.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Water pours over in a 70-foot drop after snowmelt or monsoon storms.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The summer season is monsoon time.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2026
  • This year's monsoon was sporadic and the seventh-driest on record.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Even modest shifts in monsoon strength can bring food and water shortages, and harm economies.
    — Pedro Dinezio, The Conversation, 14 May 2026
  • Styx had taken me over levees, across county and state lines, and in one case, through a monsoon.
    — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The late-season burst of rain helped Phoenix make up ground in this year's monsoon totals.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The monsoon, which usually starts on June 1, is a few days late.
    — Allison Chinchar and Taylor Ward, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • The summer has been quite lovely these past few days, with some light monsoons here in the high mountain desert.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Wells in the region only have fresh water in the months after monsoon rains.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The Steelers offense looked bad in a monsoon in the Browns tie.
    — The Mmqb Staff, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2018
  • Summer monsoon storms stayed away, while winter rains fizzled.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Sometimes even the monsoon rains no longer bring back flowing water in this part of the river.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The arrival of the monsoon next month is likely to be more help to anguished Kachins.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • The lack of monsoon rains made for the state’s driest summer on record and contributed to heat.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Heavy snow from the summer monsoon and volatile jetstream winds leave a narrow window to reach the top.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And a monsoon storm following the fire completely wiped out the creek.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
  • But the monsoon rarely sparks lightning in downtown San Diego.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023

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