storm cloud

noun

: a dark cloud which shows that a storm is coming

—sometimes used figuratively

Economic storm clouds loom on the horizon.

Examples of storm cloud in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lightning is basically a huge, static electric shock inside a storm cloud. —USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024

Fitting, then, that Saba arrives under his own storm cloud. —Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024

If anything, that is a megaphone amplifying the rim-chipping issues that loom over this team like a coastal storm cloud. —Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024

Her unsolved homicide has been like a hovering storm cloud over the city for years. —Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2024

There’s that moment at the [sports] stadium where Gale turns into a storm cloud with lightening and darkening. —Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023

The unseasonably cold and rainy weather in Cannes this year didn’t put a damper on business, but the writers strike loomed like a storm cloud, threatening a deluge. —Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2023

The storm cloud holds millions of tiny water droplets and ice crystals that bounce into each other by the turbulent winds inside the cloud. —USA TODAY, 9 June 2023