How to Use cumulus in a Sentence

cumulus

noun

• The bubbly cumulus of the day will die off with the loss of heating.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 24 June 2020
• Above me, white cumulus clouds sail the seas of a perfect blue sky.
  — Citizen Science Salon, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2015
• The rest of the city will enjoy puffy cumulus clouds dotting the sky this afternoon.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Tufts of cumulus, floodlit from below, had been painted on the ceiling above the plane.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• 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
• The air then lifts straight up, mixes with the moist layer, and creates the towering cumulus.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
• 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
• Swollen, white and grey cumulus clouds served as the only warning of a potential threat.
  — NBC News, 31 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Long, parallel bands of cumulus clouds are seen streaming out over the Atlantic.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024