cloud
noun
a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
Example Sentences
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If Saturday’s skies did not conform perfectly to cloudlessness, they came close.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2022
The sun had just risen upon a glorious day of cloudlessness, of coolness too, judging from the keen edge which still ran through the atmosphere.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
June came; the farewells were said, we were railroaded to Boston, embarked on the Cunard steamship Niagara, Captain Leitch, and steamed out of Boston Harbor on a day of cloudlessness and calm.
From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
In thirty years of observations, I recall, in fact, no occasion when the absence of exhalations in our atmosphere has coincided with such cloudlessness in that of Mars as on that night.
From The Blindman's World 1898 by Edward Bellamy
As he turned Susanna's head up the trail the mountains stood deep purple silhouettes against the cloudlessness of the sky.
From The Spirit of Sweetwater by Hamlin Garland
