How To Use Showery In A Sentence

  • A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
  • Rain in the northwest moved quickly southeastwards, followed by fresher and more showery conditions. Times, Sunday Times
  • For instance I find it likes very much to kind of kick off right away beyond the showery curtain with sopping up your skin's steam, naked as a newly inflated rainbow, but who wouldn't want to burst forth whistling for tea from such a top advantage? All About That Place
  • Courtwood intermediate footballers secured a quarter-final spot with this win at a showery Timahoe last Thursday and in doing so ended the championship hopes of Killeshin for another year.
  • The clouds were down, and the gregale was blowing cold and showery. The Isle of Unrest
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  • July begins unpleasantly with us, cold and showery, but it is often a baddish month. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
  • It turned out, in fact, to be a cracker of a show to cheer up the punters on a showery and cold early-March night.
  • These last few days have been warm and showery, perfect growing weather. Archive 2009-07-01
  • A breezy and showery week is forecast, although mild conditions should keep things moving nicely, and anglers should be rewarded with fish.
  • The showery rain eased southwards yesterday, leaving eastern parts mainly dry today. Times, Sunday Times
  • Usually we like the weather to be kind of showery," said Dwight Bershaw, a landscape architect for Clearwater Summit Group Inc. Spokesman.com: Latest stories
  • It's somewhere in between last week's chill and the "muggy" showery days over the weekend. Forecast: Mild New Year, before cold returns
  • There was a good turn out for the Clonaslee Show despite the showery weather.
  • But when the weather is showery it may be better to defer cutting even for several days after the clover has reached the proper stage for harvesting, as the injury from rain while the crop is being cured may be greater than the injury from overmaturity in the same before it is mown. Clovers and How to Grow Them
  • From midweek, showery rain is set to spread northeastwards. Times, Sunday Times
  • The people of Hampshire and Sussex call the missel-bird the storm-cock, because it sings early in the spring in blowing, showery weather; its song often commences with the year: with us it builds much in orchards. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
  • Storms would be very dirty and multiple bands of dust could be deposited on the ice sheet by several mechanisms, such as by dry deposition between storms or during showery periods in one storm.
  • However, it was also unsettled, and the week ended with more widespread showery rain. Times, Sunday Times
  • He steps up to seven furlongs tomorrow but has won over this distance and should go well tomorrow, especially as the forecast showery weather should ease the ground nicely for him.
  • A windy and showery day deterred some from venturing out, but those that did had a very good time.
  • It was a very showery day yesterday, with a number of heavy downpours between sunny intervals.
  • Brighter, more showery weather will clear from the west in the afternoon.
  • Some guidance suggests we'll be mild and showery with highs in the 50s. Forecast: A couple cold days follow icy storm
  • However, the UK's unusual bank holiday luck this year seems certain to run out over the weekend, with cool and showery weather forecast until well into next week. Ash cloud: 2m will take to skies in holiday getaway
  • It was showery and very windy but surprisingly the pitch was playable.
  • With forecasters predicting cool and showery weather, many sunseekers are heading for popular Mediterranean destinations.
  • This time of year is early autumn in New Zealand so the weather could be mixed, either dry and warm or showery.
  • Its showery, arrowy, speary sleet pierceth one thro’ and thro’, O’Hussey’s Ode to the Maguire
  • Rain in the northwest moved quickly southeastwards, followed by fresher and more showery conditions. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Tournament organisers have brought forward play in the final round by one hour as they attempt to protect what should be a great spectacle from the showery weather which is forecast for later in the day.
  • Cereal drilling is progressing well despite the showery weather and many farms are almost drilled up.
  • Northerly weather can bring cold conditions with snow and sleet in the winter, and cool, showery rain in the summer, particularly along the Eastern edge of Britain.
  • All is damp and earthy, cold and showery. Times, Sunday Times
  • The people of Hampshire and Sussex call the missel-bird the storm-cock, because it sings early in the spring in blowing, showery weather; its song often commences with the year: with us it builds much in orchards. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
  • Although not hot, the weather was kind to the festival and the showery rain that the town had experienced all week did not materialise save for one five minute burst.
  • Areas along the West Coast will continue to see showery weather for the next couple of days as another batch of rain and snow pushes into the area by the evening. Thursday's forecast: Rain, snow continue in the West
  • The band will bring heavy showers, especially to the east of Scotland, and will be followed later in the week by more showery weather.
  • But you will need to persistently remind yourself of this fact as you persevere today's unpleasant conditions as well as our "bouncy" showery weather in the coming days. Forecast: Temps up and down with rain around
  • Cool and showery weather due for much of the country this weekend may also keep visitors away.
  • Do this as soon as possible and while the weather is showery. The Sun
  • Only when he had not returned in the early evening - he had no coat and was only wearing a thin cotton shirt even though the weather was dull and showery - did concern start to mount.
  • In the summer northern Britain may have cooler than average conditions with some showery weather, while southern Britain may be dry and bright.
  • The summer of 1821 was particularly good for cumulus clouds in what was a thoroughly showery season. Weatherwatch: Constable's noble clouds
  • Tuesday looks more showery but with some decent dry weather too. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were very wrong about the showery drizzle, which never manifested.
  • On a showery day the Bolton side won the toss and elected to field.
  • Thursday brightened into an overcast, showery day with belts of dark and paler grey cloud scudding across the sky.
  • Bands of showery rain will spread north with heavy downpours following across the south. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unlike June's Royal Ascot meeting which was often beset by showery weather, it was a true summer's day as the sun beat down with not a raindrop in sight.
  • Inserting Lancashire on a showery day which began 10 minutes late and had 38 overs shorn from it, Warwickshire's pace bowlers gave the ball every opportunity to swing and remained on the attack even when Lancashire hurtled to 63 for one in a dozen overs before lunch. Lancashire v Warwickshire | County Championship match report
  • * Warm, a bit showery: Full Forecast | The Mall in fall * Arctic sea ice loss linked to severe U.S. winters
  • Today looks chilly and showery with some heavy, thundery downpours. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thursday brightened into an overcast, showery day with belts of dark and paler grey cloud scudding across the sky.
  • When the weather is showery and the soils are warming, germination is quick. The Sun
  • The flashing of torches and the beautiful radiance of blue lights (technically, Bengal lights) upon the heads of our horses; the fine effect of such a showery and ghostly illumination falling upon our flowers and glittering laurels [Footnote: "_Glittering laurels_": -- I must observe that the colour of _green_ suffers almost a spiritual change and exaltation under the effect of Bengal lights.]; whilst all around ourselves, that formed a centre of light, the darkness gathered on the rear and flanks in massy blackness: these optical splendours, together with the prodigious enthusiasm of the people, composed a picture at once scenical and affecting, theatrical and holy. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

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