Rain clouds gather overhead.

Meaning: This sentence is describing how the rain clouds are gathering overhead. It's like saying, The rain clouds are coming together and forming above our heads.

Choice of Words: Rain is water that falls from the clouds. Cloud is a mass of condensed water vapor in the atmosphere. Gather means to come or bring together. Overhead means in or above a particular place or thing.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• Dark clouds gather quickly overhead.
• Dark clouds gather overhead fast.
• Clouds gather overhead.
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• Rain clouds quickly formed overhead.
• Clouds gather, rain arrives.
• Clouds gather, sky turns gray, rain begins.
• Clouds gather, rain looms, thunder rumbles.
• Rain falls clouds gather sky.