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  • noun Plural form of stormcloud.

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Examples

  • In addition we have added a counter type of object - 'stormclouds' - to enable users to request help with designs they are having problems with.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • When those stormclouds finally swelled and burst into fat miracle drumbeats she must've felt the change was coming on.

    Rebekah Just When the Drought Was Ending Justin Hamm 2011

  • Samit Basu at 09: 05 on 13 June who is stirring stormclouds rowdy? who meets angels and says howdy? who makes squiffy skuas squelch?

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • When those stormclouds finally swelled and burst into fat miracle drumbeats she must've felt the change was coming on.

    Rebekah Just When the Drought Was Ending Justin Hamm 2011

  • It was a sign that the threatening stormclouds were slowly drifting away.

    Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York 2010

  • She was deeply distressed by the gathering stormclouds in Germany.

    Gloria Steinem. 2009

  • It's a rare thing in Washington to see a government official make a strong decision, and then defend it as the right thing to do without either (a.) trying to blame everyone else for the idea's shortcomings, or (b.) immediately apologizing for the decision, or (c.) "walking back" or even overturning the decision at the slightest sign of political stormclouds on the horizon.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On 2009

  • Later, under Nazi stormclouds, the team was nominated for the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Bohr and von Laue, and Meitner was nominated for the Physics Prize three times by Niels Bohr after WWII.

    Lise Meitner. 2009

  • Klara stood on the roof watching stormclouds build bluish and hardedged, like weather on some remote coast, a sky that seemed too lush and wild to pass this way.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Klara stood on the roof watching stormclouds build bluish and hardedged, like weather on some remote coast, a sky that seemed too lush and wild to pass this way.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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