thundercloud
Example Sentences
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A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.
From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2023
The Independent's Helen Brown gave Skinty Fia - "a fierce, dirge-like thundercloud of ruination" - the same score.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2022
A single unexpected bolt from a rogue thundercloud can be just as deadly to an individual, or as damaging to a property, as hundreds from a complex of storms.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2022
When Vassilopoulos finally puts her characters in a squeeze, the tension remains oddly vaporous, as though she has tried to trap a thundercloud in a vice.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
Even now, eight years later, I remember how my papa looked that day—like a thundercloud, but also like a pitiful, lightning-struck tree.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
