How to Use storm cloud in a Sentence
storm cloud
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In a microburst, a storm cloud dumps cool air and rain straight down, like water from a broken awning.
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Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Is this impending storm cloud trying to rain on your parade?
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Usa Today,
USA Today,
16 Dec. 2025
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As audiences sit beneath that storm cloud until next week’s episode, Oppenheimer warns that some light is on the way.
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Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
13 Jan. 2026
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In contrast, a tornado is created when a violently rotating column of air forms, extending all the way from the base of the storm cloud to the ground.
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Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a massive storm cloud.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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The song builds a repetitive guitar riff into a foreboding storm cloud of cinematic Americana.
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Lily Goldberg,
Pitchfork,
16 Apr. 2026
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The brilliantly blue bolt can be seen illuminating the inside of a storm cloud above the historic city, but glimpses like these can go far beyond simply illustrating lightning’s grandeur.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 Jan. 2026
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The original 30-meter-long, 15-meter-high installation, a black storm cloud representing the threat of global conflict, was ominously destroyed by a violent dust storm on the first day of the festival.
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Katya Soldak,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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