storm cloud
Example Sentences
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And Marjorie Taylor Greene just earned herself a storm cloud over her house.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2024
Like tornadoes, waterspouts develop when differing wind directions cause the air in part of a storm cloud to rotate, forming a column of rapidly spinning air that descends down to the surface of the ocean.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
It can’t create water from a clear sky — particles must be shot into a storm cloud that already holds moisture to get it to fall, or to fall more than it otherwise would naturally.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024
A storm cloud, one Mario could essentially swim through, stood before our hero in his trademark red suspenders.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023
Hers are the brittle gray of broken glass, but Elias’s, with their ring of dark lashes, are a deeper hue, like the thick heart of a storm cloud.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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