thunderstroke
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live."
From Time Magazine Archive
And he whirled his club aloft more threateningly than ever, as if he were about to smite them with a thunderstroke right amidships, because Athens, so little while ago, had been at war with Crete.
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
My father was then in the zenith of his prosperity, and was absorbed in his affairs; yet this loss—this heavy blow—came upon him like a thunderstroke.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
This fell on the province with the power and rapidity of a thunderstroke; it made no cry, no movement; Bretagne expired.
From The Regent's Daughter by Alexandre Dumas père
This was a thunderstroke to the unfortunate cavalier.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
