thundercloud

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thun·der·cloud | \ ˈthən-dər-ˌklau̇d

Definition of thundercloud

: a cloud charged with electricity and producing lightning and thunder

Examples of thundercloud in a Sentence

We watched the gathering thunderclouds.

Recent Examples on the Web Her gesture cut through the dispiriting circumstances, like a ray of sun through a dark thundercloud. — Spencer Case, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020 For hundreds of millions of years, thunderclouds and their lightning have been natural partners to fire. — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2020 Though lightning had been suspected to play a role, the thundercloud energies observed in previous experiments were not great enough to explain the terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019 Spall’s Turner is irascible and uncommunicative, seemingly a thundercloud charged with negativity. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 14 Nov. 2019 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 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 Gupta wondered if that property could be used to calculate how much energy the thunderclouds contained. — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019 One set of landscapes shows the sublime, such as Joseph Mallord William Turner’s etching of the Scottish Highlands with roiling thunderclouds. — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018

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