Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cloud that brings or threatens storm.
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- adjective Attributive form of
storm cloud , noun.
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Examples
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When the storm-cloud shall break, and the lightning shall play;
The Storm 2010
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There's a leak in the lobby of the Long Island City Art Center, where the up-and-coming rapper/hip-hop artist has his recording studio, and the water's followed him, forming a shiny circle around his storm-cloud grey and black sneakers.
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The blue eyes have turned that same storm-cloud gray.
Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010
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The blue eyes have turned that same storm-cloud gray.
Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010
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My grandmother, in her pink Chanel once again, looked like she should be wearing storm-cloud gray.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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There's a leak in the lobby of the Long Island City Art Center, where the up-and-coming rapper/hip-hop artist has his recording studio, and the water's followed him, forming a shiny circle around his storm-cloud grey and black sneakers.
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The driver growled the gearshift into first, then, with an unsettling mechanical belch, and a storm-cloud size puff of black smoke, the 60's model Russian hauler lurched away toward the unimproved path, that led off into the single canopy jungle.
CUBA: FIVE DAYS ON THE CHEAP, FREE CELL, FREE GUARD DOG, FREE GUARD 2010
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There are so many reasons, all piled together, that they've become a big blob that's more feeling than justification, and he's got no words for the feeling, so it floats over all his other thoughts like a storm-cloud, complicated and nameless.
Sissyneck 2010
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Like most of this artist's previous paintings, each is a storm-cloud of washes and lines, with varied flashes of lightning rising from their irregular depths.
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My grandmother, in her pink Chanel once again, looked like she should be wearing storm-cloud gray.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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