Sentence examples for stormy clouds from inspiring English sources

"stormy clouds" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a sky filled with dark, turbulent clouds that often precede a storm. Example: The weather forecast predicted a day of turbulent winds and stormy clouds, so we decided to postpone our picnic.

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But they're not very peaceful clouds; they're stormy clouds.

Though those stormy clouds remain on the horizon.

One big work, "The Deluge" (2014), painted on a stage backdrop of a harbor scene, combines stormy clouds from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing with images of Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, from "North by Northwest".

For example, when evaluating the likelihood of rain, the sentence in (19) is only an acceptable judgment if you are outside and see the sky full of dark, stormy clouds, feel wind, and can smell rain.

Her body looks relaxed, but there is something askew about her expression, imperfect, like the clouds on the horizon, stormy clouds that were different shades of gray and separated by the sky".

In Mailer's writing, for instance, sex is rarely a flight into sweet or stormy clouds of pleasure; it is more likely to be a turbulent existential undertaking, caught in the dialectic of past and present, in which lovers draw forces and experiences from themselves and each other and either ascend into greater daring or sink back into timidity.

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"Plenty of bumps, many anxious glances at the fuel gauge, most of the time in thick stormy cloud".

With its towering thunderstorms, the stormy cloud patch marched out of the Indian Ocean and spread its contrary winds nearly across the tropical Pacific, warming the surface by cutting off the cooling influence of deeper waters.

I'm tired of worrying that my inability to climax will loom over my relationship like a stormy cloud, and I'm pretty sure it's that stress that keeps me from knowing what an orgasm feels like.

That is no good place./ When wind blows up and stormy weather/ makes clouds scud and the skies weep,/ out of its depths a dirty surge/ is pitched towards the heavens.' Where Raffel has the rather tinny 'nor is it/ A pleasant spot!' Heaney has the swallowed emphasis of 'That is no good place.' And while Raffel's language is not banal, he cannot match 'heather-stepper' or 'dirty surge'.

(Psalms 69 34) Praise the LORD from earth's lands, seas and the deep; Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; Mountains and all hills; Fruit trees and all cedars; Beasts and all cattle; Creeping things and winged fowl; Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth; Both young men and virgins; Old men and children.

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