Within my breast no sorrows can abide; I feel the great world’s spirit through me thrill, And as a cloud I drift before the wind, Or with the random swallow take my will.
Clouds upon clouds of dust enveloping The lofty gates of the proud capital.
The bird rose up in the air in its agony and vanished into the clouds, and the youth fell on to the broad branches of the apple-tree.
«Perhaps the storm won’t burst to-night,» said Joe; «the clouds are very high.»
He found the cold, grey cloud wilderness rising towards him with a wide, slow steadiness.
Immediately after quitting it, we were enveloped in clouds of snow.
He breathes his rage in terrific squalls, and overwhelms his realm with an inexhaustible welter of clouds. He strews the seeds of anxiety upon the decks of scudding ships, makes the foam-stripped ocean look old, and sprinkles with gray hairs the heads of ship-masters in the homeward-bound ships running for the Channel.
These mediators and mixers we detest—the passing clouds: those half-and- half ones, that have neither learned to bless nor to curse from the heart.
Carried along a few hundred feet above the ground she was better able to appreciate the Titanic proportions of the storm than when she had flown in the comparative serenity of the zone above the clouds, for now she could distinctly see the effect of the wind upon the surface of Barsoom.
In the open space between the clouds and the black, bubbling sea far beneath, could be seen an occasional strange bird winging its way swiftly through the air.
As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still.
A terrific east wind swept away the groups of clouds which had been so long gathering, and at night the semi-disc of the orb of night rode majestically amid the soft constellations of the sky.
We must have covered a great many thousand square miles of territory, and yet we had seen nothing in the way of a familiar landmark, when from the heights of a mountain-range we were crossing I descried far in the distance great masses of billowing clouds.
«I will give you,» she said, «all the riches of the Red Sea.» «I will teach you to fly then,» said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.
The foremost clouds, lowering and black as soot-laden smoke, rushed with extraordinary swiftness over the sky.
Are you looking for some good cloud idioms to include in your day-to-day English conversations?
If so, you have come to the right place.
In this post, we are going to look at 12 Cloud Idioms, what they mean, and how to use them in a sentence.
Let’s get started.
1. A Cloud Hangs Over Someone Or Something
- Meaning: used to describe when someone or something is surrounded by feelings of uncertainty, distrust, or negativity. It is often used after a negative event in the recent past.
- Use In A Sentence: A cloud hangs over the company as the criminal investigations into the CEO continued.
2. To Be On Cloud Nine
- Meaning: to be in a state of extreme happiness.
- Use In A Sentence: Jennifer has been on cloud nine ever since she started going out with Tommy. I just hope he doesn’t break her heart.
3. A Cloud Of Suspicion
- Meaning: to have feelings of suspicion of wrongdoing committed by someone.
- Use In A Sentence: Ever since the money went missing, there has been a cloud of suspicion over the employee’s heads. It seems ever more likely that their boss was guilty.
4. To Cloud The Issue
- Meaning: to distract people from the current topic by introducing irrelevant or misleading information.
- Use In A Sentence: Rather than give a simple explanation, he clouded the issue even more by bringing up John’s past.
5. Coming Up A Cloud
- Meaning: to appear like it is going to rain.
- Use In A Sentence: It is really coming up a cloud outside. Let’s bring our raincoats and umbrellas with us, just in case.
6. Every Dark Cloud Has A Silver Lining
- Meaning: a silver lining on a cloud means that the sun is behind it. With that in mind, it means that something good can come out of a bad situation.
- Use In A Sentence: Whenever I am going through a hard time, I try to remind myself that every dark cloud has a silver lining.
7. To Have One’s Head In The Clouds
- Meaning: to be absentminded. A person that doesn’t know what is going on around them. A person who is not realistic because they are always thinking about their hopes or dreams.
- Use In A Sentence: It is difficult to try to solve this problem when half of my team has their head in the clouds.
8. In The Clouds
- Meaning: Detached from reality. Impractical.
- Use In A Sentence: It is hard to talk to Caleb about his business because he is always in the clouds dreaming about his next adventure. I say he should quit his job and travel the world. It’s obvious that is what he really wants to do.
9. A Cloud On The Horizon
- Meaning: a sign that something bad is going to happen in the near future.
- Use In A Sentence: Although the business is doing well today, there is a cloud on the horizon. The government could institute new regulations that could affect production.
10. To Cloud Over
- Meaning: to become clouded or opaque.
- Use In A Sentence: The bathroom mirror started to cloud over as the steam from the hot shower filled the room.
11. Storm Clouds
- Meaning: it suggests impending trouble or problems.
- Use In A Sentence: If I had to guess, I’d say there will be storm clouds in the young couple’s future. They may think they are in love, but the reality is, they are not.
12. To Build Castles In The Sky
- Meaning: to create dreams or hopes that are unrealistic.
- Use In A Sentence: To create a business from nothing, you can’t just build castles in the sky, you need to have a definite business plan. Therefore, let’s discuss how we can help you achieve your goals at our next meeting.
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I recognised that voice, and so did Godfrey, and I saw the cloud of disappointment which fell upon his face.
The Colonel turned his head slowly, and blew out a fresh cloud: «Good joke?«
I watched these clouds as I drove recklessly, desperately, over the winter roads.
Then the ground seemed to cave in, suddenly, and the house, with its load of foul creatures, disappeared into the depths of the earth, sending a strange, blood colored cloud into the heights.
What says the noble hymn: ‘When gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark and friends are few, On him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain: He sees my griefs, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.‘
The high explosive shells bursting about the crest of 1070 raised enormous clouds of dust which obscured everything, and after a short while even the flames of exploding shells were entirely hidden from view.
While thus engaged in combat, so great was the multitude of people who charged upon us, throwing at us such a cloud of arrows, that we could not withstand the assault, and, nearly abandoning the hope of life, we turned our backs and ran to the boats.
Two Indians, squatting on the other side of the fire, scrambled away as the shifting wind brought a cloud of stifling smoke into their faces.
Duncan watched them come, driving a cloud of dust before them, till they were within close range; then opening with his wonderful rapidity, he shattered whole platoons at a discharge.
The carriage left a cloud of dust behind as it bowled along over the dry country road.
From the face of the cliff puffed a cloud of dust.
A cool breeze from the west to north—east moderated the heat, the temperature at 2 p.m. 103 degrees; passing clouds from the east in the afternoon.
At the commencement of the winter session it soon became evident that seven weeks of summer holiday had not dispelled the cloud which had overshadowed the close of the previous term.
Now and then a flash of lightning lighted the narrow ravine; occasionally a straggling moonbeam pierced the clouds and shed an uncertain glimmer on the heights; but these flitting guides served only to make the darkness seem darker.
The steam—tram stopped at the Metropole and went on to the port, trailing a cloud of dust.
Occasionally, however, the Arctic zephyrs disperse the feathery cloud, and then vast numbers of the timid creatures, with a sprinkling of the Walrus, may be seen by looking in a Se(a)ward direction.
They also, of course, yield unequal compliance to the force of the wind, which gives rise to a still greater degree of interference, and passionate gusts sweep off clouds of spray from the groves like that torn from wave—tops in a gale.
He knew it all so well, by morning, by noon and night; in rainstorm, storms which he had watched come up from oceanwards in drifting clouds of vapour; and in sunshine, clear, brilliant sunshine, a little hard and austere, to his way of thinking, and unseasonable.
The news of the Croatian invasion filled the Hungarians with deep anxiety, and the extraordinary excitement caused by it cast a permanent cloud over the soul of that great and noble man, Count Szechenyi.
They carried away a cloud of purple, but left the purple head stained as before.
If anyone can lift the cloud which seems to be hanging over him, I think it is you.
From each rushes an enormous jet of high—pressure steam and other gases, which boils up through the sea, and forms a cloud above; that cloud descends again in heavy rain, and gives out often true lightning from its under side.
Shake it upon a piece of paper, and it emits a cloud of fine dust, which falls over the paper, and is the well—known Lycopodium powder.
Over the island, and raggedly clasping its sides, hung a cloud, the only one visible in the sky.
The Colonel put up his hand with that now familiar action as if to clear away a cloud.
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I began by creating a word cloud.
If this sounds too time-consuming, you can accomplish this in a more visual way by generating a word cloud for the job descriptions.
Если это звучит слишком долго, вы можете сделать это более наглядным способом, сгенерировав облако слов для описания работы.
To sum up and visually represent the project, I created a word cloud consisting of popular suicidal keywords.
Чтобы подвести итог и визуально представить проект, я создал облако слов, состоящее из популярных суицидальных запросов.
I put all the responses into a word cloud.
Полученные ответы мы сгруппировали в облако слов.
I thought this was like a word cloud.
Answers are represented as a word cloud.
The submissions become part of a word cloud.
Here is a word cloud I just made.
The script generates a word cloud of the most frequently used words.
Затем он сгенерирует облако слов, составленное из наиболее часто используемых ключевых слов.
I’m plugging the audio into a word cloud program That pings key words.
Подключаю аудио к программе облако слов, подбирающей ключевые слова.
For a word cloud of categories like weblogs, frequency, for example, corresponds to the number of weblog entries that are assigned to a category.
Для облака слов, например, категорий блога, частота соответствует количеству записей в блоге, которым присвоена данная категория.
I used to create a word cloud.
creates a word cloud with the most frequently used words in the text.
Создать облако наиболее часто используемых слов в тексте
It’s a word cloud from this morning’s DC Press.
The results are visualised using a word cloud.
Ниже — идентичные результаты, но визуализированные в виде облака слов.
Wordle will then present you with a word cloud — like the on below for the Hunger Games books.
Wordle представит вам облако слов — как показано ниже для книг Голодных игр.
More generally, the same visual technique can be used to display non-tag data, as in a word cloud or a data cloud.
Более обще, то же самое визуальное представление может быть использовано для отображения не тегов например, облако тегов или облака данных.
What do you mean by a word cloud?
А что вы имеете в виду под облаком?
In Uber’s case, Chilton said it could be as simple as building a word cloud to show how people talk about the culture or strategy six months ago versus now and whether the words employee use to describe it have changed.
В случае Uber, объяснил Чилтон, может быть достаточно создать облако слов, которое бы показывало, как люди говорили о культуре или стратегии полгода назад и как говорят сейчас, а также изменились ли слова, которые сотрудники используют для описания этих явлений.
The larger the word in a word cloud, the more often it appears in the Media Cloud database sample of news reports, blogs, and other media.
Чем крупнее слово в облаке, тем чаще оно появляется в базе данных новостей, блогов и других материалах средств массовой информации в Media Cloud.
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