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
• The schoolbook picture is that, inside a thundercloud, hail falls as lighter ice crystals rise.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 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
• Her gesture cut through the dispiriting circumstances, like a ray of sun through a dark thundercloud.
  — Spencer Case, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Their meeting point can be on Earth or where opposite charges have gathered inside a thundercloud.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 June 2023
• For hundreds of millions of years, thunderclouds and their lightning have been natural partners to fire.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2020
• 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
• As a thundercloud begins to darken and swell, its chilly innards host a churning jumble of ice particles.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• More warm, moist air rises, condensing into thunderclouds that release heat.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• Franklin believed the rod could be used to indicate whether overhead thunderclouds were electrified.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
• As thunderclouds bunch to the south, a pair of youthful Panamanian pilots appear.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• 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
• At a later point in the film, two characters’ unsettling argument is echoed by rumbling thunderclouds.
  — EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• Storm creates a roaming thundercloud that tracks enemies like Silence and Squall, and zaps them with lightning.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Gupta wondered if that property could be used to calculate how much energy the thunderclouds contained.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• 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
• Looming in the background now are the volatile thunderclouds of a murky geopolitical future, according to Knopp.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
• 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
• When one of the planes reaches the base of a threatening thundercloud, the pilot flips a switch to release plumes of microscopic silver iodide particles.
  — Kathryn Phillips, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Part of the mystery comes from the fact that the electric fields seen in thunderclouds are far smaller than what’s required to start a spark, reports Newsweek’s Tom Howarth.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Such lightning within the eye wall is rare and typically signals rapid intensification, as towering thunderclouds churn around the hurricane’s core.
  — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
• 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