How to Use mushroom cloud in a Sentence
mushroom cloud
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Then the mushroom cloud started to move up the sky and over us.
—Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
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The blast at Beirut's port formed a mushroom cloud and could be heard in the city's furthest outskirts.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 4 Aug. 2020
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The mushroom cloud of flame and hot gas was visible from dozens of miles away.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2023
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Above his head, in a thought balloon, is a vision of her chair, with a mushroom cloud over it.
—Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
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But in Richland the mushroom cloud is a point of pride for many students and alumni.
—Annette Cary | Tri-City Herald, oregonlive.com, 9 June 2019
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As a coup de grâce, a bright blast flashes and a mushroom cloud rises on the horizon.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
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The ad showed a 3-year-old girl in a New York City park counting petals on a daisy, then cut abruptly to a mushroom cloud.
—Julia Sonenshein, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
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The collapse set off a brown mushroom cloud over the Lebanese capital.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019
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The cause of the explosion, which sent a huge mushroom cloud into the sky and flattened much of the port, is still unknown.
—Fox News, 5 Aug. 2020
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Rare mushroom cloud-like formations have been seen over the fires.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2021
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This wave causes a mushroom cloud-like pattern of CO2 that is released when the cork pops [3].
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
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The days-long blaze created a mushroom cloud of deadly fumes that could be seen for miles.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 17 Feb. 2023
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Across the way sits Richland High School, home of the Bombers, where flags, walls and the school basketball court feature a mushroom cloud.
—Mike Baker Mason Trinca, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2022
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On the right, the mushroom cloud of a bomb looms over swirls of factory smoke, the scene a motley milieu of muddied grays and browns.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
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This is the only unit with such imagery, and because the unit is part of the 509th, the air wing's insignia features a mushroom cloud as well.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
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What would be left might look more like a rustic stew than a dashing hero ready to walk away and admire the mushroom cloud.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
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But the blast created a mushroom cloud 42 miles high, about seven times the height of Mount Everest.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2020
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For the man who set all this in motion, the mushroom cloud was unfolding before his very eyes.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 July 2018
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The smoke resembled the mushroom cloud of a nuclear blast.
—The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2023
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The blast created a huge mushroom cloud and shockwave that was felt as far away as Cyprus, hundreds of miles away.
—Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 5 Aug. 2020
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Then one strike hit a Russian Ural truck, creating a massive mushroom cloud over the spot.
—Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2022
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The explosion sent up a mushroom cloud 2 miles high and shattered windows 50 miles away.
—Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
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Hot pink mushroom cloud t-shirts and internet memes abound as the world waits, with bated breath, for July 21.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 July 2023
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Video footage shows the blast from several angles, sometimes struggling to show the entire mushroom cloud in the frame.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2020
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The truth is large explosions on the ground also produce the iconic mushroom cloud shape, due to simple physics.
—Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2020
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The creature roars, and Yamazaki’s camera pans up to reveal a mushroom cloud blooming in the skies over Tokyo.
—Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
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Each impact creates a fireball about as hot as the core of the sun, followed by a radioactive mushroom cloud.
—Max Tegmark, Time, 29 June 2023
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The center yellow circle is the fireball radius — that is, the mushroom cloud — which would extend out about 0.25 square miles.
—Alex Ward, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
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The countdown ended with a huge explosion, sending a mushroom cloud of dust into the air.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
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The plane never quite made it to the runway, instead hitting several water towers before being consumed by an explosion like a mushroom cloud.
—Richard Laver, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
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