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

Her back was thunderhead blue, her rose-tinted breast had the brightness of cloud tops.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George