How do you use the word "cloud" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "cloud": There wasn't a cloud in the sky. There isn't a single cloud in the sky.

Cloud Meaning

/ˈklaʊ̯d/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

nounAny mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

Sentence Examples

There wasn't a cloud in the sky.

There isn't a single cloud in the sky.

A cloud of dust rose as the truck drove off.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

fog mist obscure

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

A single dark ____ blocked the sun over the picnic area.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A large dark ____ passed over the sun, making everything dark ton.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 9:34:

"So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams." — 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

"Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles." — 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

"But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries." — 1898, Edward Frere Marriott, “Papers relating to India”, in Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Indian Currency, No. 37. Memorandum by Captain Edward Frere Marriott. I.S.C., page 76:

"so great a cloud of witnesses" — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 12:1:

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