storm cloud

noun

1. a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm

2. a herald of disturbance, anger, or violence

   the storm clouds of war

Example Sentences

But banks typically increase their quarterly provisions for loan losses if they see storm clouds forming.

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Of course, investors can’t ignore the political storm clouds gathering in Washington.

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The immediate job for O'Neill and Maloney is to lift the storm clouds and change the narrative.

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Yet even at that point, storm clouds were already gathering.

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An unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers and animal rights advocates, together with others, is creating storm clouds for a plan to protect one threatened owl by killing a more common one.

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Related Words

• rain cloud