thunderhead
Example Sentences
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Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023
A thunderhead towers above the rising sun, and the picture turns out beautifully.
From Slate ● May 11, 2015
A black grand piano hulked on one side, the heavy, distended ceiling bearing down on it ominously, like a thunderhead.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2014
With the canyon walls squeezing the sky to a ribbon of blue, we didn’t see the thunderhead until it was nearly on top of us.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2013
He came across the gym like a thunderhead bearing down across the valley and grabbed the clipboard out of my hands.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
