How to Use mushroom cloud in a Sentence

mushroom cloud

noun

• Then the mushroom cloud started to move up the sky and over us.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The mushroom cloud of flame and hot gas was visible from dozens of miles away.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2023
• Above his head, in a thought balloon, is a vision of her chair, with a mushroom cloud over it.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• 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
• As a coup de grâce, a bright blast flashes and a mushroom cloud rises on the horizon.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• 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
• The collapse set off a brown mushroom cloud over the Lebanese capital.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Rare mushroom cloud-like formations have been seen over the fires.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2021
• 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
• The days-long blaze created a mushroom cloud of deadly fumes that could be seen for miles.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 17 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For the man who set all this in motion, the mushroom cloud was unfolding before his very eyes.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 July 2018
• The smoke resembled the mushroom cloud of a nuclear blast.
  — The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Then one strike hit a Russian Ural truck, creating a massive mushroom cloud over the spot.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2022
• The explosion sent up a mushroom cloud 2 miles high and shattered windows 50 miles away.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The countdown ended with a huge explosion, sending a mushroom cloud of dust into the air.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024