thundered

Example Sentences

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When CNN co-moderator Elex Michaelson asked Villaraigosa if he would cancel California’s much-maligned high-speed rail project, the candidate’s emphatic “No” thundered down like a Lebron James dunk.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

“A month of bombing has achieved nothing,” its cover thundered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Everton pushed for a winner and Gueye, another of Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations heroes, almost got it when he thundered a fierce strike against the bar.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

As the sweeping “O Fortuna” movement of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana thundered over the loudspeakers, he rose from underneath the stage while sitting on a badass, none-more-black throne decorated with skulls and a gigantic bat.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025

The British horsemen who thundered up the mountain were frustrated—Jefferson had again escaped their handcuffs.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis