- present participle of rain.
raining
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It was raining, and there were no customers.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It was quite hard work, adjusting to life on the farm, we also had the worst winter that year when we moved back, I don't think it stopped raining for about four months," Joe said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
All of this would happen because the financial professional had read the midyear reports raining down from major financial institutions.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Even though it was raining over there at the time, it was still a lot of fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
It had been raining all morning, so we hadn’t been able to go outside and have a balloon race like Miss Rhonda had planned for us to do.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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