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
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
A bank of clouds had been building, and a massive thunderhead reared thousands of feet up into the still-bright upper sky.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
