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
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
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
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
