It rippled up like quickly forming cumulous clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Sunflower Diner Burning Bright] Reference
Whitecaps thundered below, and gray cumulous clouds thundered above. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
There are three main groups of clouds: cumulous, cirrus and stratus. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
It's pretty unusual, here in the land of the cumulous, to have a cloudless sky. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
The moon passed behind cumulous mountains of clouds along the horizon, and periods of darkness blotted the world from Ootah. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
I loved when the air turned wet and kinetic, when the wind brought in fat, dusty cumulous formations that rose up like nuclear explosions. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Husbands] Reference
En route, as I looked up at a beautiful blue sky filled with just a few floating, cottony-like cumulous clouds, I was captured by another view in the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Schwager: Can Communications Serve the Human Heart?] Reference
Does he notice the thick cumulous lifeforms that escape from his mouth in shapes that shift and evanesce like the opportunities that once populated his life?. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty White Gloves] Reference
Now extrapolate the North and south Atlantic, in the middle of a storm, with high cumulous clouds, lots of power, electrical problems, and a dark, dark night. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2009] Reference
REILLY: Right now they are watching a couple of cumulous clouds or rain clouds that have formed just south of the pad and looking at how fast they are moving north. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007] Reference
Brant Foote, a longtime scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the clouds photographed by Wiggins already fit into the existing cumulous classification. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The past few days here have been the kind of weather that tricks you and makes you think, "Ah, summer," forgetting completely what actual summer will feel like with its flamboyant humidity and skies too hot for the cumulous. From Wordnik.com. [little blue men dancing on a pin's head] Reference
To the soft blue sky, where the cumulous clouds are thinned. From Wordnik.com. [In the Golden Birch] Reference
Partly Cloudy is an only partly engaging tale of a clumsy cumulous. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
A poem of weather, possibility and relationships (cumulous and not). From Wordnik.com. [All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content] Reference
By noon huge cumulous clouds and thunderheads tower above the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
In their experiment, cumulous cells were collected from the eggs of patients undergoing IVF. From Wordnik.com. [RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News] Reference
Brown thought these bright features looked similar to cumulous clouds - or even like thunderheads. From Wordnik.com. [Universe Today] Reference
Clouds came up rapidly from the west, rushed by to the Nevada side where they piled up in great cumulous heaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference
On the Earth, cirrus clouds are made of water ice, unlike your normal cumulous clouds that rain on you; they rain liquid water. From Wordnik.com. [Universe Today] Reference
Then RNA from cumulous cells belonging to each of the 12 eggs was isolated and analyzed to see which genes were active in the cumulous cells. From Wordnik.com. [RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News] Reference
Good graphic shapes of course can make excellent subjects and a fine building white cumulous sky is hard to resist treating in black and white. From Wordnik.com. [Photography Blog - News] Reference
And it was a clear bright day except some cumulous, or thunder clouds as some call them, and I noticed one, on the western horizon, that seemed stationary. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832] Reference
Those responsible must be really sweating to invent a true cumulous cloud maker to fool everyone but nature is a tough act to follow even for "experts" making weather shields. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Asia pollution circles the globe in stratosphere?study] Reference
I asked them to share their dreams by writing them on post-it cards which they affixed on a 22 "by 27" inch poster whose background was overlaid with a blue sky and cumulous clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com] Reference
A short time before, the campus had intermittent sunlight while in the south, thick cumulous clouds could be seen against a blue sky as singer Aaron Kelly sang "I Believe I Can Fly.". From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
A molten death's head of diminishing sun was obscured by cumulous clouds which spilled across the top of the mural spelling out the word "MESOPOTAMIA" in a particularly lurid shade of grey. From Wordnik.com. [The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide] Reference
The opportunity offered in the film-like cirrus clouds, which so frequently lie as the background to the more positive forms of the cumulous, for securing the oppositional feeling, is one frequently adopted by sky painters. From Wordnik.com. [Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures] Reference
Mandy Katz-Jaffe, PhD and her group are working on a way to use measurements of the gene expression of cumulous cells - protective cells that surround the egg †"to gauge the egg†™ s chromosomal competence. From Wordnik.com. [RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News] Reference
"And it's cumulous," Metria said. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
Mine used to look like cumulous clouds and you could see it ----ick----growing within minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Testing for Yeast] Reference
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