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
• Cloud nine is a cumulonimbus cloud that can rise to the lofty height of 6.2 miles, as high as a cloud can be.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 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
• 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
• Would cirrus clouds bring the most apparitions, or cumulonimbus?
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• 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 dense cumulonimbus clouds threatened thunder and lightning.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 28 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• At the logjammed bars, attendees reached again and again for palomas over bountiful crudité platters offering strips of jicama, spears of asparagus and cumulonimbus piles of purple cauliflower.
  — Isaac Oliver, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Low clouds fall into four divisions: cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and stratocumulus.
  — Catherine Zuckerman, National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019

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