1. pouring
It's been pouring here for the last few days.
They made little of the pouring rain.
It's pouring outside.
When we arrived in New York it was pouring with rain.
But by leaving the humidifier on all night in the morning condensation's pouring off the windows ...
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
It's really coming down! There are puddles all over the street, and water is pouring down from the rooftops.
For you to come out and say that kind of thing now would just be pouring oil on the fire.
I'm pouring some anti-inflammatory cream on my right knee.
A man who angers easily should learn to count to ten - it calms trouble like pouring oil on troubled waters.
It looks like it will start pouring any second now. Better take an umbrella.
Sweat was pouring from his brow.
Sleeping on a problem solves it as easily as pouring oil on troubled waters.
2. incident
The incident upset him.
A fact-finding committee was set up to determine the cause of the incident.
A small border dispute ballooned into a major international incident.
Russia expresses regret for those lost in the hostage incident.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency upped the level of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from level 5 to level 7.
The publication of the exam results over without incident, for the time being attention is naturally going to focus on the summer break, right?
Hardly had he woke up when he remembered the embarrassing incident of the previous night.
We combed police records of the incident but found no mention of witnesses seeing a tall, bearded man.
The tiger, having had its wounds treated, was returned by the villagers to the animal sanctuary without incident.
Her grandfather extrapolated an isolated incident at a grocery store into a series of sweeping, unflattering generalizations about every Mexican on earth.
I've heard about it, Koichi "You don't need to say anything more, I know. It's the summer festival incident at the shrine, right?"
The Japanese Dentists Association affair is an incident concerning secret donations from the Japanese Dentists Association to Diet members belonging to the LDP.
At any rate, that it had ended without serious incident was a small mercy.
In this way a passing boat noticed them, thanks to Takeda's scream, and they survived without incident.
The day before yesterday he witnessed a weird incident in the wilderness.
3. showers
Where are the showers?
The weather forecast says there'll be showers.
She showers every morning.
April showers bring May flowers.
There will be occasional showers
The morning forecast predicted thunder showers later in the day.
I'm glad we didn't go there because there were some localized heavy rain showers.
Occasional showers are possible tomorrow.
They say we're going to get some showers.
'Fox's wedding'. "Er ...?" "Today, with an 81 percent likelihood, it will be clear skies but, depending on location, there will be sun showers."
Some national parks offer showers and even baby-sitting services.