cloudlet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cloudlet
Example Sentences
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Even a tiny cloudlet, anchored in the limited sky, would not sail to-day.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
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 W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
On account of the early hour, the heat was not at first oppressive, though the day was clear and from beyond the Karamojo Mountains the sun rolled magnificently, not shaded by a cloudlet.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The tempest growled on the horizon, and grew apace; the cloudlet was spreading over the heavens.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day; Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away!
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
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