thunderhead

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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

Like a thunderhead, the huge cloud spawned lightning strikes, worrying firefighters because of their potential to start new fires.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021

If the pilot of QZ5801 saw a massive thunderhead dead ahead, and was concerned enough to request a change in his flight path, then maybe he should have gone ahead and diverted, even without permission.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2014

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