Can I use coat for snow or rain?

[alpacinou]

Is correct to use the verb "coat" for rain or snow or frost?

1. As I started driving home, a drizzle started. Small raindrops coated the windshield.

2. As I started driving home, a snow started. A thin layer of snow coated the windshield.

3. The weather was really damp that day. Moist coated the window of my room.

4. It was really cold. A thick frost coated the widow of our living room.

 

[Tarheel]

Is correct to use the verb "coat" for rain or snow or frost?

1. As I started driving home, it started drizzling. Small raindrops coated the windshield.

2. As I started driving home, it started snowing. A thin layer of snow coated the windshield.

3. The weather was really damp that day. Moisture coated the window of my room.

4. It was really cold. A thick frost coated the window of our living room.

They are all acceptable.

 

[emsr2d2]

Is correct to use the verb "coat" for rain or snow or frost?

1. As I started driving home, it started drizzling. Small raindrops coated the windshield.

2. As I started driving home, it started snowing. A thin layer of snow coated the windshield.

3. The weather was really damp that day. Moisture coated the window of my room.

4. It was really cold. A thick frost coated the widow of our living room.

It works with snow and frost, not with raindrops or moisture.

 

[Tarheel]

Admittedly, I am not crazy about 3 and 4.

 

[teechar]

1. As I started driving home, it started drizzling.

2. As I started driving home, it started snowing.

I would use "began" instead of the second "started" in those. Such repetition is hardly creative.

 

[Tarheel]

As I was driving home it rained. It was pouring down. I could barely see out of the windshield. I drove slowly so I could see where I was going. When I got home I eased the car into the garage. I went into the kitchen and got a cold beer. I sat down on the couch and watched TV.

 

[Tarheel]

Alpa, we don't say something is coated with moisture. We say it is wet.

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