storm-cloud
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "’TIS midnight now—athwart the murky air, / Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam; / From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare, / It shews the bending oak, the roaring stream."
- "O Isla’s maid, yon sea-bird mark, / Her white wing gleams through mist and spray, / Against the storm-cloud, lowering dark, / As to the rock she wheels away;— / Where clouds are dark and billows rave, / Why to the shelter should she come / Of cliff exposed to wind and wave?— / O maid of Isla, ’tis her home."
- "The dreariest towns I ever beheld—the tops of the islands in gloomy storm-clouds; […]"
- "IN midwinter the shadow that hung over John gathered into storm-cloud."