thunder

Even a few kilometres can make the difference between a torrential downpour with thunder and lightning, and somewhere staying completely dry.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

A clap of thunder cracked over the town of Lege-Cap-Ferret, and a few raindrops started to fall over the coastal region that has seen France's worst wildfire since 1949.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

They saw messages from the divine in thunder and lightning, bird flight and the entrails of sacrificed animals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

There was some angry thunder and dazzling flares of lightning near and far.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Another scene, in which a captured German officer demands the young private’s name and Mainwaring thunders: “Don’t tell him, Pike” is routinely voted one of Britain’s funniest TV moments.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

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

Turn off “The Last Dance” videos, lose the romantic Bulls-colored glasses, separate the myths from the men, and the reality thunders down like a trademark James tomahawk dunk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

My heart thunders in my ears as I pick my way along the edge of the alleyway.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

Even they disappeared, though, when the black clouds made it directly over us and the sky opened up and poured rain and thundered so loud it made us three jump a little every time.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Once inside the park before 8 a.m., their first stop was the Bridalveil Fall Trail, a short trek that takes visitors right to the base of the thundering cascade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Dinwiddie evolves from being a thundering doubter about Washington to being an equally thundering supporter who refuses to accept the younger man’s resignation after a setback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

That was the beginning of the chants, arguably louder than for any other player in Dodger Stadium history, stronger than Moo-kie, deeper than Fred-die, chants thundering enough to seemingly be heard for a lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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

Sierra crept toward him, her heart thundering in her ears.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older