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

Last Wednesday, though, conditions led to the creation of a larger, taller cloud called a pyrocumulonimbus, which is similar to a thunderhead.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021

A thunderhead towers above the rising sun, and the picture turns out beautifully.

From Slate • May 11, 2015

Early that morning, a towering thunderhead had rumbled in from the east, stripping branches from the cottonwoods and flooding the streets of Oklahoma City.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2014

Cal looked over his shoulder at a thunderhead sailing blackly over the mountains on the nervous March wind.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck