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Bad weather portent
Answer for the clue "Bad weather portent ", 9 letters:
cloudbank
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n. (alternative form of cloud bank English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A low, scudding cloudbank was coming off the western horizon, purple with unshed rain. ▪ Lightning struck out of the towering cloudbank . ▪ The cloudbank spread, seeming to soak up the light.
Usage examples of cloudbank.
He led her through a thick cloudbank, then doubled back, climbing swiftly upsun, meaning to silence the Greenie following them.
The grasslands lay in a deep violet haze and to the west thin flights of waterfowl were moving north before the sunset in the deep red galleries under the cloudbanks like schoolfish in a burning sea and on the foreland plain they saw vaqueros driving cattle before them through a gauze of golden dust.
When evening approached, the sky had blown clear except for a heavy cloudbank off toward the west, dyed a deep scarlet by the setting sun.
Sporadic flashes of lightning made wan flickers behind the cloudbank, silhouetting for an instant dim patterns grotesquely writhing against the heavens.
Hitting a cloudbank is easier than trying to climb a tree on a motorcycle, eh, Tom?
The sun crawledout from the dark lightning-shot cloudbank to blaze tri-umphantly in the blue sky.