cloudlet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cloudlet
Example Sentences
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In the sky there was not a cloudlet, but the horizon's border was disfigured.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Walking close to each other, they loomed against the background of the park--the one in her black, flapping weeds resembling a gliding shadow, and the other like a white summer cloudlet.
From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann
The organ's hum grew softer, and the censers swung with a silvery tinkling of their slender chains, releasing a cloudlet of white smoke, which unrolled in lacelike folds.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
The water this evening was full of phosphoric matter, and it gleamed and sparkled around the little boat like a northern aurora around a dark cloudlet.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
If it come to an aerolite or mass of metallic rock, or even a cloudlet of gas, standing still in space, its contact with our air evolves 600,000° of heat.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White
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