thundercloud
noun
thun·der·cloud
ˈthən-dər-ˌklau̇d 
: a cloud charged with electricity and producing lightning and thunder
Examples of thundercloud in a Sentence
We watched the gathering thunderclouds.
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Looming in the background now are the volatile thunderclouds of a murky geopolitical future, according to Knopp.
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Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
At a later point in the film, two characters’ unsettling argument is echoed by rumbling thunderclouds.
—EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
Then, in December 1945, after postwar service in Palestine, his father returns home, arriving on the local platform in a thundercloud of engine smoke.
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
The centerpiece of nearly all big thunderstorms is a main, monster-size thundercloud, perhaps 40,000 or 50,000 feet from base to top.
—Kathryn Phillips, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
At a later point in the film, two characters’ unsettling argument is echoed by rumbling thunderclouds.
—EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
Then, in December 1945, after postwar service in Palestine, his father returns home, arriving on the local platform in a thundercloud of engine smoke.
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
The centerpiece of nearly all big thunderstorms is a main, monster-size thundercloud, perhaps 40,000 or 50,000 feet from base to top.
—Kathryn Phillips, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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thundercloud
noun
thun·der·cloud
-ˌklau̇d
: a dark storm cloud that produces lightning and thunder
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