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(informal) with great speed or effort or intensity; used for emphasis
ran like sin for the storm cellar
drove like crazy
fought like the devil
this sprain hurts like hell
worked like hell to get the job done
work like thunder
How To Use like thunder In A Sentence
- As one walks there at night when peaceful Balinese music is suddenly transformed into bomb-like thunder, one just can't stop a horrid chill creeping over every part of the body.
- Zafarraya, a loud sound like thunder was first heard, and before it ceased there came a violent subsultory movement preceded by a very brief oscillation, then a pause of one or two seconds, and lastly a more intense and longer series of undulations, the whole movement lasting 12 seconds. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
- A loud rumbling noise like thunder was heard in the early hours of the night. Times, Sunday Times
- This 'westerner' had his hands on his hips and a face like thunder. Lunch with Gordon ... Or Was It?!
- Her footfalls sounded like thunder throughout the house.
- An almighty crack and a noise like thunder sounded from the end of the tunnel and rumbled down to their ears.
- They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.
- _Amor, amaris, amatur_ -- Woman goes like thunder when a starter! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893
- Stern pronouncements are hurled down like thunderbolts from Zeus, and, like Zeus, their authors are totally unaccountable to mere human beings.
- The frantic battering of the fireflies and the dull click of the demon's hooves sounded like thunder against the heavy, dead air.