thunder

While inside, I heard what sounded like thunder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

He was the last speaker of the three-hour event, and thunder had been audible outside for over an hour.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Unstable air underneath the low has allowed big storm clouds to develop, capable of delivering torrential downpours accompanied by hail and thunder.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

"There's thunder, that's good," said a firefighter at the command post set up in the town's sports hall.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

As he heaved himself up the slope, the thunder of many hooves drew nearer.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

He’s quick to slide his board into one of the glassy tubes, gliding out before the wave thunders down onto the reef, a monstrous spray of lapping white froth raining down behind him.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

“America, you are too arrogant,” he thunders, overcoming his inner censor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

Which creature could be found “below the thunders of the upper deep,” according to a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023

Yet this new chamber music triptych dances more than it thunders.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Every time it thunders we jump as if guards had opened fire on the house.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

He’s distracted when he decides to race a comet: “We roared and thundered along side by side, both doing our level best, because I’d never struck a comet before that could lay over me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

"Where is the money?" supporters of Magyar's party, Tisza, thundered in unison, referring to accusations against local Fidesz politicians over millions of euros of public funds that have gone missing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

When it collapsed a year ago, 350 tonnes of slurry thundered through the Blaenau Gwent village and buried Mr Morgan's driveway.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

It thundered across the field, stomped through the stream, and John Henry raced toward it, hammer in hand.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

And I heard about it, in thundering waves of sarcasm and snark, from old fashioned emails to online comments, a tsunami of taunts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Ride, its follow-up, is a darker dose of disco, punctuated with cracking whips and the thundering footfall of wild horses.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

What a perverse outcome that would be for Catholic Charities, after its thundering 9-0 victory in America’s highest court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

He toured the country, mesmerizing crowds with thundering calls for black people to shake off the undermining ghetto stereotypes and claim their long-denied political power.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama