How to Use cumulonimbus in a Sentence

cumulonimbus

noun
  • The eyewall is the band or ring of cumulonimbus clouds that surround the eye of the storm.
    — Molly Rubin, Quartz, 12 July 2019
  • There was a very tall cloud — probably a cumulonimbus — that was building right along the horizon as the sun was setting.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • Would cirrus clouds bring the most apparitions, or cumulonimbus?
    — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • How hail forms Hail forms inside cumulonimbus clouds, which produce thunder, lightning and hail.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • The dense cumulonimbus clouds threatened thunder and lightning.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 28 June 2019
  • William Rankin was flying his F-8 fighter jet over a cumulonimbus when the engine failed.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2012
  • Like arcus clouds, tubas appear most often with cumulonimbus and sometimes with cumulus.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In mid-afternoon, the giant bubblers, the cumulonimbus clouds, can then build vertically thousands of feet into the sky.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • The clouds typically form as a result of air turbulence within large cumulonimbus structures.
    — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • In it, falling rain evaporates before reaching the ground because of high temperatures, but lightning from the high cumulonimbus clouds reaches the ground.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2017
  • Thanks to Boise viewer Robin Hadder for sending in this picture of the towering cumulonimbus cloud that formed this evening in the Boise area.
    — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 17 May 2018
  • These are bands of low clouds associated with supercell storm clouds, typically cumulonimbus.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In the distance, their gently curved edges became bulbous, towering cumulonimbus clouds reaching farther and farther into the atmosphere.
    — Emily Holshouser may 19, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
  • Typically associated with supercell storms, murus (or wall clouds) develop in the rain-free portions of cumulonimbus clouds.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Appearing mostly along the bottoms of altostratus, nimbostratus, cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds, these are ragged shreds of the cloud that make up a continuous layer.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Your fingers slip into routines, digital rituals encoded by childhood habits, neural pathways waking like heat lightning blinking through cumulonimbus clouds.
    — Matt Peckham, Time, 27 June 2017
  • The weather setup for Wednesday will be chock full of cirrus, cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds bubbling up across Northern California.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2023
  • If a clear sky in a landscape looked boring, a photographer’s assistant — often a woman (thought to possess a surer hand) — could create a separate negative with billowing cumulonimbuses.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
  • Towering cumulonimbus clouds made for magical sunsets, and the warm, yellow rays of sunshine generated rainbows that were seen across Northern Virginia and Montgomery County.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 25 June 2018

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