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- noun Alternative form of
cloud bank .
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Examples
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Worse than the airplane in the middle of the featureless cloudbank.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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