What is "cloudbank"

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.