SCUD


Meaning of SCUD in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

clouds race/scud (= move quickly )

A wind was blowing and soft clouds were scudding across the sky.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cloud

Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames.

In the midday sun the flooded paddies formed a mirrored mosaic across which tropical clouds scudded in fragmented disarray.

Bayard sometimes appears as a cloud , scudding across the sky on Midsummer's Day.

He became aware of the wind getting up a little more, sending the small clouds scudding across the face of the moon.

You could get seasick at the top watching the clouds scudding across a full moon in a vast ocean of space.

The clouds were scudding across the expanse of blue.

There was little light left in the sky now, and a few rags of cloud were scudding over the early stars.

The clouds were scudding low over the rooftops; it was pouring with rain and the streets were flooded.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bayard sometimes appears as a cloud, scudding across the sky on Midsummer's Day.

Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames.

Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.

Indeed time itself seems alternately to scud and to suspend during those ten seconds.

The day was bright and windy, a string of filmy white clouds scudding eastward.

The President looked out the window at the scudding clouds, put on the overcoat, then took it off.

We scudded over the Dorus Mhor which was conveniently quiescent, its frothing tidal step lurking in the depths.

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