How to Use thundercloud in a Sentence

thundercloud

noun

• We watched the gathering thunderclouds.
• That thought bubble then dogs the movie like a dumb, fat thundercloud.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 Mar. 2022
• Nine miles away, the island of Moorea springs up from the sea, its jagged green peaks bundled in thunderclouds.
  — James Shreeve, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2004
• For decades, a good word in one of their columns was the syrup on a mogul’s pancakes; a bad one meant a thundercloud over Burbank.
  — The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• Gaze well above the top of a thundercloud while blocking out all the lightning action below with a piece of cardboard.
  — Frankie Lucena, National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2016
• Custardy but dense with mystery, charged with spice and sweetness and a telltale hint of iron, the dish is a thundercloud of texture and flavor.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• The schoolbook picture is that, inside a thundercloud, hail falls as lighter ice crystals rise.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• The birds and flowers are emblems of a tender heart, while the armory of spiky weapons—a spear and a bow on her calves, the thunderclouds of Zeus on her shoulder—are badges of a fighting spirit.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Her gesture cut through the dispiriting circumstances, like a ray of sun through a dark thundercloud.
  — Spencer Case, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• Things cleared out on the third day, and temperatures rose to the upper 80s as thunderclouds developed in the afternoon and evening.
  — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 30 June 2018
• For hundreds of millions of years, thunderclouds and their lightning have been natural partners to fire.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2020
• Storm creates a roaming thundercloud that tracks enemies like Silence and Squall, and zaps them with lightning.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• As thunderclouds bunch to the south, a pair of youthful Panamanian pilots appear.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• As a thundercloud begins to darken and swell, its chilly innards host a churning jumble of ice particles.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• The score, by Herdís Stefánsdóttir, is a kind of musical thundercloud, and the dialogue has an oracular growl to match.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• Franklin believed the rod could be used to indicate whether overhead thunderclouds were electrified.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
• Fire produces columns of hot air that rise into the atmosphere—sometimes so much of it that smoke thunderclouds form, creating lightning that sparks more fires.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
• Because two warm bodies surround the peninsula, and the sea breeze brings hot air inland, towering thunderclouds form.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 June 2019
• The turquoise sky, the confetti-speckled purple thunderclouds, the simmering red mountains on the horizon, the acid green grass, along with the stripes and polka dots worn by two Native American women, are all a party for the eyes.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• But earlier this week, low pressure hovered over the region, which would allow warm, moist air to rapidly ascend into the colder air aloft forming thunderclouds.
  — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• The action caused a thundercloud of uncertainty because the USGA didn’t announce its rules decision until after the round.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• As Sweeney prepares his bloody vengeance against those who’ve wronged him (and a few poor sods who haven’t), Gonio is like a looming thundercloud gathering barometric pressure before a horrific storm.
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
• More warm, moist air rises, condensing into thunderclouds that release heat.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• Fountains of air surge upward inside the growing thundercloud and push the tiniest ice crystals upward, but the larger ice pellets continue to fall, so there are constant collisions.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• Gupta wondered if that property could be used to calculate how much energy the thunderclouds contained.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• Fears of a recession have cast a thundercloud over the economy for many months but forecasters sun-kissed by falling inflation and a robust jobs market have grown optimistic about the U.S. averting a downturn.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 July 2023
• With operations based in Tampa, Florida, researchers hoped to learn more about lightning and the vast energy fields around thunderclouds in Earth's atmosphere.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• On a recent October afternoon as thunderclouds loomed on the horizon, Florsheim canvassed in the Bretton Road neighborhood.
  — Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• While other networks cover the daily scandals that have gathered like a thundercloud over the White House, Fox News has sold itself as a protective cocoon for conservative viewers.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 22 Feb. 2018
• One key appears to be the difference between surface air temperatures and air temperatures much higher up at the top of the troposphere at altitudes where thunderclouds smooth out into anvils.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024