The raindrops painted rainbows across the sky.
Meaning: The raindrops created rainbows in the sky, which looked like colorful paintings.
Choice of Words: Painted means to apply paint or color to a surface. Rainbows are colorful arcs in the sky caused by the refraction of sunlight through water droplets. Sky is the upper part of the atmosphere. The sentence uses figurative language to describe the rainbows as if they were painted by the raindrops.
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