How to Use cumulus in a Sentence

cumulus

noun
  • Above me, white cumulus clouds sail the seas of a perfect blue sky.
    — Citizen Science Salon, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2015
  • The bubbly cumulus of the day will die off with the loss of heating.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 24 June 2020
  • Congestus clouds are the tallest species of cumulus clouds.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The rest of the city will enjoy puffy cumulus clouds dotting the sky this afternoon.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • These clouds are similar to cumulus clouds, except these are formed by fire instead off the ground.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 25 July 2024
  • Swollen, white and grey cumulus clouds served as the only warning of a potential threat.
    — NBC News, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Tufts of cumulus, floodlit from below, had been painted on the ceiling above the plane.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Some pieces call to mind puffy cumulus clouds floating in the sky, except each is spotted and has sprouted four legs.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • On our second day, the smoke scattered in the midsummer breeze and high cumulus clouds, and the air was clearer.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Instead, Tom should take a review day to make sure that cumulus and stratus are firmly in his brain.
    — Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The air then lifts straight up, mixes with the moist layer, and creates the towering cumulus.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • Yet from the main road, the landscape before me, clumped with cumulus-like bushes, appears as empty as the sky.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2023
  • Low-level clouds, like cumulus and stratocumulus, could block out large portions of the sky.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Long, parallel bands of cumulus clouds are seen streaming out over the Atlantic.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2017
  • This heating burns off the flat tops of shallow cumulus clouds for hundreds of miles downwind of pollution sources.
    — Environment News Service, WIRED, 16 May 2000
  • Quintessential clouds, and cumulus clouds are detached and dense.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The plane passed a fluffy cumulus, and Bretherton spotted a rainbowlike prism of colors.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The movement of cloud silhouettes scudding across the floor of a distant valley tracks the cumulus shapes racing across the dome of sky.
    — Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Cooler climates such as London and Dublin have fewer cumulus clouds.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Puffy cumulus clouds will also anchor themselves over the north and western sky this afternoon as a cold front approaches the city.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But imagine, walls of Wingate Sandstone climbing out of canyons, reaching for a blue sky dotted with cumulus clouds.
    — Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Fair weather waterspouts usually form along a dark, flat base of a line of developing cumulus clouds.
    — Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
  • Pyrocumulus clouds are similar to the cumulus clouds people are used to seeing.
    — Charles Jones, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2020
  • By Sunday, a nasty little lightning bolt has appeared under the cartoon cumulus.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 24 May 2017
  • Like arcus clouds, tubas appear most often with cumulonimbus and sometimes with cumulus.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The throttle response algorithm is relaxed, the air suspension set to cumulus.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Participants will learn how to make their own cumulus clouds with cleaning expert Brandi Smith.
    — cleveland, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The alto cirrus indicate a change in weather, the mare’s tail mean high-altitude winds, the cumulus means building moisture.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2018
  • To carry out the freeze-drying process, Wakayama’s team harvested support cells known as cumulus cells from around the oocyte of female black-furred mice.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 8 July 2022
  • Soon the old Cessna is bouncing through the cumulus, the dense rainforest below resembling a head of broccoli.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024

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