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How To Use thunderhead In A Sentence

• I am headed towards an embankment of thunderheads.
• The thunderhead was drifting eastward, trailing rain which didn't quite reach the thirsty ground. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
• Miles away a thunderhead had begun its afternoon romp and was growling lazily.
• The thunderhead which spat the lightning was miles away, across a landscape of forest and rock. COLDHEART CANYON
• The haze behaves somewhat like particles in the tops of thunderheads on Earth (known as cumulonimbus anvils) or in the ash plumes from large volcanic eruptions, which rise into the upper atmosphere and spread around the world. Scientific Blogging
• The cameras could pick up flashes of lightning among the thunderheads.
• Henry could see on the horizon huge cumulus clouds rearing over zones of rising air, thunderheads that were sustained by the constant upflow of warm water and air. A Furnace Afloat
• I looked back to shore and saw we now had this enormous slate-gray thunderhead approaching us. Binky Philips: I Visit Graceland and Get Kurt Cobain's Autograph
• The thick Thunderhead Sandstone (Upper Precambrian Great Smoky Group) in the Great Smoky Mountains along the Tennessee/North Carolina border was deformed and regionally metamorphosed during formation of the Appalachian Highlands, beginning in the so-called Devonian (that is, early in the Flood year).12-14 With increasing temperatures and pressures from northwest to southeast, the regional metamorphism produced in these sandstone layers a series of chemically and mineralogically distinct zones of schists and gneisses.15 These zones are named according to the first appearance of the distinctive metamorphic minerals which characterize them as the intensity of the metamorphism increased laterally—the biotite, garnet, staurolite, and kyanite zones. Ken Miller in Cleveland: WEBCAST ARCHIVE URLS - The Panda's Thumb
• A light rain sprinkled from dark thunderheads above but no one even noticed the mist.