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
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
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
It thunders across the yard—just a thunderhead of black robes.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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