How to Use thunderhead in a Sentence

thunderhead

noun

• A thunderhead was forming to the west.
• Most of the books take place in the prolonged twilight of the 1930s, when war loomed like a distant thunderhead.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• Their thunderhead clouds can extend 40 miles from base to top, which is five times the height of Earth's thunderheads.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 May 2021
• The impending doom of the 2021 CBA expiration will hang over the game like a thunderhead.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 14 June 2020
• Lightning strikes, and the last rays of the day struggle to penetrate an ominous thunderhead.
  — Anne Farrar, National Geographic, 18 June 2019
• And so the dysfunctionality grinds on, even as the thunderheads roll in and the water levels rise.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2017
• Then, like a tulip unfurling in the morning, a thunderhead suddenly blossomed to the south.
  — Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2022
• Towering thunderheads may be commonplace closer to the equator this time of year, but just 300 miles from the North Pole?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2019
• Forest fires under black thunderheads that paid out no rain.
  — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
• Those thunderheads massing on the horizon let loose only a weak drizzle.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
• Off in the distance were puffy, juvenile thunderheads on the northeast horizon.
  — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
• Dr Price suspects that in his experiment the surface of the inner cylinder is taking on the role played in a thunderhead by water’s solid phase, ice.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• The thunderhead of smoke, a purple lesion on the orange twilight, is mysterious but not alarming.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Like a thunderhead, the huge cloud spawned lightning strikes, worrying firefighters because of their potential to start new fires.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
• Puffs of thunderhead smoke rising between tower blocks.
  — Louise Doughty, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Last Wednesday, though, conditions led to the creation of a larger, taller cloud called a pyrocumulonimbus, which is similar to a thunderhead.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• Positively charged clouds rise, creating a tall cloud called a thunderhead.
  — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 10 June 2020
• The quintuple-feature starred a towering thunderhead, a menacing shelf cloud, a vibrant rainbow, a glorious sunset and concluded with a fireball that shot across the night sky.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• On ordinary days, a pleasant wisp of white or a menacing thunderhead serve a more pedestrian preoccupation, a pragmatic barometer for how to dress or where to go.
  — Amy Ellis Nutt, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2017
• The thunderhead clouds were expected to give way by Sunday morning, but temperatures in the mountains were expected to hit 93 degrees on Sunday and Monday before dropping on Tuesday.
  — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2019
• Away to the west thunderheads parted theatrically to reveal additional islands moored in distant anchorages of sun.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2020
• In El Niño conditions, sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean become unusually warm and tall thunderheads, known as cumulonimbus clouds, form over the water.
  — Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2016
• This phenomenon plays an important role in creating the earth’s (increasingly unstable) weather systems, which the show captured using time-lapses of thunderheads.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024