storm clouds
Example Sentences
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The storm clouds are gathering over onetime digital-media darling BuzzFeed.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
When storm clouds are forming, bold investors can use put-option spreads to profit off the expected stock market decline.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
They are of the same era—fanciful and fantastical embodiments of the enterprise, leisure and sense of possibility America was placing on offer, despite the decade of Depression and war’s looming storm clouds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
Other out-of-towners might be disappointed to arrive in sunny Southern California only to be greeted by storm clouds, but Lilleaas is sanguine about the situation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
The last of the storm clouds disappeared from the sky; the sun sank gold and low, and Nim and Alex were still lying on the beach talking.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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