thunder

How To Use thunder In A Sentence

• This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
• The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
• The forecasts have been asking us to watch out for thunderclouds and thundershowers for a long while now.
•   The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
• There was thunder too and lightning and in places rain. Bomber
• Typical mesocyclonic tornadoes are caused by intense thunderstorms with appropriate vertical and directional wind shear. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pathogens in Harm’s Way:
• They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
• About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
• That's the forecast for the forecastable future -- showers and thundershowers as the warm and sun suck moisture out of our sodden lebensraum and turn it back into clouds. Showers
• The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm.