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

If the pilot of QZ5801 saw a massive thunderhead dead ahead, and was concerned enough to request a change in his flight path, then maybe he should have gone ahead and diverted, even without permission.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2014

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

Astern of us the island coastline faded, and no land showed anywhere, but only sea and heaven, when Zeus Krom'on piled a thunderhead above the ship, while gloom spread on the ocean.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer