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  • noun Alternative form of cloud bank.

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Examples

  • Worse than the airplane in the middle of the featureless cloudbank.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

  • They drove through a cloudbank that misted the windshield and brought on a false twilight but dissipated almost as quickly as it had appeared.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • They drove through a cloudbank that misted the windshield and brought on a false twilight but dissipated almost as quickly as it had appeared.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • They drove through a cloudbank that misted the windshield and brought on a false twilight but dissipated almost as quickly as it had appeared.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • Motionless at the edge of the ravine, they were miles from the city and the wide flat river that snaked into the glow, the sun going gray, smoldering in a towering heap of dust like a cloudbank.

    Excerpt: The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux 2007

  • The top of the sculpture is wave-like, resembling a snowdrift, and groupings of the straws have been pulled out slightly into an undulating bas relief, suggesting a cloudbank or a wall of sea foam.

    Magician of Man-Made Materials 2008

  • The cloudbank was thick enough to filter the sun and the top surface of our outer clothing was cooler than I'd ever felt it since I arrived on Mars.

    Mars Description II 2006

  • The cloudbank was thick enough to filter the sun and the top surface of our outer clothing was cooler than I'd ever felt it since I arrived on Mars.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • When it lunged out of the cloudbank the dreadnought's gunners had only a few seconds to fire and the one shell that hit bounced off the cruiser's streamlined hull.

    Sun of Suns 2006

  • He bounded to the window and looked out, in time to see bright streaks converge on one of the other ships from inside a vast cloudbank.

    Sun of Suns 2006

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