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

Last Wednesday, though, conditions led to the creation of a larger, taller cloud called a pyrocumulonimbus, which is similar to a thunderhead.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021

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

Then came another flash of lightning, and this time the jagged fork struck down direct from the thunderhead at one of the zeppelins.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman