thundering

thunder | American Dictionary

thunder
noun[ U ]
us/ˈθʌn·dər/
the sudden, loud noise that comes after a flash of lightning:
a clap of thunder
thunder
verb[ I ]
us/ˈθʌn·dər/
to produce thunder after a flash of lightning:
The sky grew dark and it started to thunder.
The horses thundered past (= moved making a lot of noise), shaking the house.

Examples of thunder

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The trumpeting of eclecticism, therefore, thunders as a testimony to intent but perhaps heralds little else.
The only way is forward into the barrage of cannon fire that volleys and thunders from either side.
A crown accepted in such a hugger-mugger fashion, with no onlookers and no opportunity for a great and thundering speech, would be a crown devalued, indeed meaningless.
The pandemonium of recurrent activity that ensues and the electrophysiological consequences of the thundering returning cortical echo to the thalamus are treated in these last chapters.
Many towards the rear bolted, but they had to bolt fast indeed to remain ahead of that thundering charge; and the river hemmed them in on their right.
Why should the urban masses work hard and get ahead, thundered temperance advocates, when they could help themselves to free lunch, a warm stove, and a roaring drunk?
Through the years, as he leapt back and forth on the stage and thundered out his sermons, life had been draining out of him through the running fistulae.
The storm rushed over the fairgrounds carrying the deafening explosion of electricity and thunder.
Jarred awake by a sudden clap of thunder, she found herself pregnant, and soon after, bore a supernatural child.
As soon as the paddles plunged into the river, fierce thunder shook the land.
The thunder and lightning storm is a real one coming across from the mainland.
In 1989, it was proved that thunder is not caused by the thermal expansion of the lightning channel.
Men are made of rock and thunder: threat of storm to labor under.
Their presence was all the more sinister amidst the approaching thunder of anticlericalism.
The theme is worked up into a massive texture of blaring trumpets and thundering percussion.
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