How to Use cumulus in a Sentence
cumulus
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The bubbly cumulus of the day will die off with the loss of heating.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 24 June 2020
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Above me, white cumulus clouds sail the seas of a perfect blue sky.
—Citizen Science Salon, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2015
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The rest of the city will enjoy puffy cumulus clouds dotting the sky this afternoon.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
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The other is a sinuous sheath of silk crepe topped with a huge cumulus whorl or wreath of ruched silk gazar.
—Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
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On our second day, the smoke scattered in the midsummer breeze and high cumulus clouds, and the air was clearer.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2021
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Tufts of cumulus, floodlit from below, had been painted on the ceiling above the plane.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
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Through tonight: Some puffy cumulus clouds are popping up this afternoon ahead of a weak cold front to our north.
—Greg Porter, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
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The air then lifts straight up, mixes with the moist layer, and creates the towering cumulus.
—Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
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The staging lights, the wheelies, the hateful cumulus of tire smoke enveloping the burnout box—to Boomers the Demon looks like Heaven.
—WSJ, 20 July 2017
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Swollen, white and grey cumulus clouds served as the only warning of a potential threat.
—NBC News, 31 Aug. 2019
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Some pieces call to mind puffy cumulus clouds floating in the sky, except each is spotted and has sprouted four legs.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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The movement of cloud silhouettes scudding across the floor of a distant valley tracks the cumulus shapes racing across the dome of sky.
—Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
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Instead, Tom should take a review day to make sure that cumulus and stratus are firmly in his brain.
—Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
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In late afternoon, after a series of come-and-go light showers, a 2-mile-wide black cumulus formed over the top of the McCloud’s limestone ridge.
—Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019
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If one thermal peters out, head for the nearest cumulus cloud or dark field. Thermals can last 10 to 30 minutes or so.
—David Patterson, star-telegram, 27 Oct. 2017
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Long, parallel bands of cumulus clouds are seen streaming out over the Atlantic.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2017
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Through tonight: Bubbly, fair-weather cumulus clouds of the day will diminish with the lack of daytime heating.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
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But imagine, walls of Wingate Sandstone climbing out of canyons, reaching for a blue sky dotted with cumulus clouds.
—Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
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This heating burns off the flat tops of shallow cumulus clouds for hundreds of miles downwind of pollution sources.
—Environment News Service, WIRED, 16 May 2000
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To carry out the freeze-drying process, Wakayama’s team harvested support cells known as cumulus cells from around the oocyte of female black-furred mice.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 8 July 2022
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Clouds come in all shapes and sizes: wispy, high cirrus, puffy cumulus, the low, gray stratocumulus layers that blanket gloomy days.
—Kate Marvel, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2017
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Through tonight: The few puffy fair-weather cumulus that formed this afternoon should diminish this evening with the loss of daytime heating.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
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In Southern California, the wet weather is mostly confined to the deserts and mountains, and buildups of cumulus clouds over the mountains can often be seen from the coast.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
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In Southern California, the wet weather is mostly confined to the deserts and mountains, and buildups of cumulus clouds over the mountains can often be seen from the coast.
—Paul Duginski, latimes.com, 3 Aug. 2017
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Soon the old Cessna is bouncing through the cumulus, the dense rainforest below resembling a head of broccoli.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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Space Launch Delta 45′s weather squadron predicts a 90% chance for good weather with the only concerns being cumulus clouds.
—Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
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Skies remain mostly sunny aside from the normal fair-weather cumulus, as highs head into the upper 80s to near 90.
—Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 16 July 2017
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Puffy cumulus clouds will also anchor themselves over the north and western sky this afternoon as a cold front approaches the city.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2022
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Sandler added that the reason the NWS did not issue a tornado warning is because the fire tornado is essentially chained to the heat from the fire and the cumulus clouds above.
—Joe Siess, oregonlive, 28 July 2021
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The alto cirrus indicate a change in weather, the mare’s tail mean high-altitude winds, the cumulus means building moisture.
—Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2018
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