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US
/ˈɹeɪnˌboʊ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪnbəʊ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪnbəʊ/ ]
NOUN
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an illusory hope
chasing rainbows - an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
How To Use rainbow In A Sentence
- There was a horizon-to-horizon rainbow to the northeast, a "sun pillar" to the northwest, and "virga" - wisps of precipitation (such as snow or ice) streaming down from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground. Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed
- Plasma levels of GH increase following seawater exposure of coho, chum and Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout.
- I love London particularly for that layered feel, for its glorious haphazardness and its unique personality, which Peter Ackroyd personisifes as William Blake's Glad Day: a radiant youth with his arms outstretched against rainbow light. MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building
- Strange flashes of varicoloured, rainbow light began to appear and disappear on the path before me.
- Nancy Finn at Chasing Rainbows dyes lovely silk caps and tussah and and and... Spinning Silk Hankies
- The hipster cops are sneering at the two faux surfers: 'I'm all dialed in to see what happens if the pair of rainbow donks actually hit the briny on their unwaxed legs.' Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language
- For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma. Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link
- In some cases, light is reflected twice by each rain drop, forming a larger, fainter secondary rainbow outside the primary rainbow.
- Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
- Yet even clouds cast shadows, and stars keep changeless patterns and turn circles around the earth, but the rainbow was nothing but a brilliant, beautiful, empty glow in a world made fresh by rain.