nimbus

Example Sentences

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Looming through the tall windows along the back wall, dark skies were crammed with nimbus clouds.

From Literature

Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds.

From New York Times

With his bald pate and nimbus of gray, scowling behind spectacles, he had long been a favorite of editorial cartoonists.

From New York Times

All these flat shapes are limned by dark lines — the reverse of the delicate nimbus of light surrounding them in the original.

From Washington Post

Even when the music whips up complex, noisy nimbuses of competing motifs, the fast, finely judged changes within the dense activity are preparing you for variations on the weather.

From New York Times