Example Sentences

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Beyond, verdant hills rose to a clear sky, punctuated here and there with puffy cumuli.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2015

Black scathing cumuli of mosquitoes formed a needling vapor in the boat.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2015

Now, with his head pointing upward, he found himself gazing at the ridge, as over the skyline came the silent, moving, red-tinged cumuli.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The moon emerged from behind a cloud, touching with a delicate sepia some fleecy edge of cumuli.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

About noon, as usual, big bossy cumuli began to grow above the forest, and the rainstorm pouring from them is the most imposing I have yet seen.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John