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Meanings of thunderhead in English

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Cumulonimbus cloud seen during a thunderstorm.

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        Examples for "cumulonimbus"
        Examples for "cumulonimbus"
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        The surrounding hills still have their forests; cumulonimbus clouds towering over them like clenched fists.
        Year's best sf 15
        2
        Marching away, far in the distance, rising above the mountains, lines of towering cumulonimbus flickered magically.
        Genellan: planetfall
        3
        Tall cumulonimbus scurried through the darkening sky, splashed a pale rose gold by the vanishing sun.
        The evolutionary void
        4
        The lightning moved up the towers of cumulonimbus.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        5
        Specifically, the scientists were looking at the temperatures at the very tops of each storm's cumulonimbus clouds.
        Wired
        1
        The surrounding hills still have their forests; cumulonimbus clouds towering over them like clenched fists.
        Year's best sf 15
        2
        Specifically, the scientists were looking at the temperatures at the very tops of each storm's cumulonimbus clouds.
        Wired
        3
        Cumulonimbus Clouds Super fluffy, cotton-like balls, shaped into an anvil, are a harbinger for lightning, hail, and tornadoes.
        Climbing Magazine
        4
        During one of these flights, small fluctuations were observed in the vicinity of the aircraft with formation of Cumulonimbus clouds.
        Pubmed
        5
        And we also know the process occurs most spectacularly in the large towering cumulonimbus clouds that we associate with thundery conditions.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of thunderhead in English
        1
        Soon night would roll in on the back of a rumbling thunderhead.
        Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
        2
        It looked like a city built on a cloud, a thunderhead floating.
        The Forever War
        3
        The moment Waba-mooin saw her he turned black as a thunderhead.
        The Trail Book
        4
        The men now vanished in a tidal wave of flame, a roiling thunderhead.
        Carte Blanche
        5
        Visit Website The bottom of the thunderhead churned like boiling gruel.
        Climbing Magazine
        6
        Lightning lased from the base of the thunderhead with deadly precision.
        Climbing Magazine
        7
        The thunderhead was growing, and it seemed to be headed straight for the island.
        Devil's keep
        8
        Her heart raced as she stared into the thunderhead that brewed in his gaze.
        Strong, sleek and sinful
        9
        A thunderhead floated above the horizon, flecked with liquid lightning and countless blue-and-white lights.
        Ancient shores
        10
        A perpetual thunderhead, I learned, rode above the Circle, though the storm never broke.
        The Great Book of Amber
        11
        A big thunderhead passed over, and I breathed shade, grateful.
        Phoenix noir
        12
        Abner Marsh clouded up like a thunderhead about to break.
        Fevre Dream
        13
        Overhead, the projected face broke into fragments as evening breezes dispersed the artificial thunderhead.
        The Winds of Dune
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        An hour later the thunderhead was just damp air and water dripping off the eaves.
        The man who ate the 747
        15
        The thunderhead spun its circle above the Walker house.
        Discord's apple
        16
        Now she felt its rage approach as if it were hidden in the dark thunderhead.
        Wizardborn
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