thunderhead

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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

A thunderhead towers above the rising sun, and the picture turns out beautifully.

From Slate • May 11, 2015

A black grand piano hulked on one side, the heavy, distended ceiling bearing down on it ominously, like a thunderhead.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2014

With the canyon walls squeezing the sky to a ribbon of blue, we didn’t see the thunderhead until it was nearly on top of us.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2013

A bank of clouds had been building, and a massive thunderhead reared thousands of feet up into the still-bright upper sky.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman