verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clouds race/scud (= move quickly )
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A wind was blowing and soft clouds were scudding across the sky.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cloud
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Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames.
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In the midday sun the flooded paddies formed a mirrored mosaic across which tropical clouds scudded in fragmented disarray.
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Bayard sometimes appears as a cloud , scudding across the sky on Midsummer's Day.
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He became aware of the wind getting up a little more, sending the small clouds scudding across the face of the moon.
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You could get seasick at the top watching the clouds scudding across a full moon in a vast ocean of space.
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The clouds were scudding across the expanse of blue.
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There was little light left in the sky now, and a few rags of cloud were scudding over the early stars.
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The clouds were scudding low over the rooftops; it was pouring with rain and the streets were flooded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bayard sometimes appears as a cloud, scudding across the sky on Midsummer's Day.
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Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames.
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.
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Indeed time itself seems alternately to scud and to suspend during those ten seconds.
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The day was bright and windy, a string of filmy white clouds scudding eastward.
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The President looked out the window at the scudding clouds, put on the overcoat, then took it off.
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We scudded over the Dorus Mhor which was conveniently quiescent, its frothing tidal step lurking in the depths.