nimbus clouds

1. The dark clouds characteristic of storms.

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Looming through the tall windows along the back wall, dark skies were crammed with nimbus clouds.

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Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds.

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She can create hovering nimbus clouds of harmony with the best of them.

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Thunderstorm clouds are called cumulonimbus clouds — the nimbus part of the name comes from the Latin for “dark cloud,” because the moisture within nimbus clouds can block or reduce incoming sunlight.

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Mateo points out the dark nimbus clouds, and I’m straight wowed I get to live in this moment with someone who doesn’t deserve to die.

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