[
UK
/θˈʌndɐ/
]
[ US /ˈθəndɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈθəndɝ/ ]
VERB
-
move fast, noisily, and heavily
The bus thundered down the road -
utter words loudly and forcefully
`Get out of here,' he roared -
be the case that thunder is being heard
Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed -
to make or produce a loud noise
The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle
The river thundered below
NOUN
- a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- street names for heroin
- a deep prolonged loud noise
How To Use thunder In A Sentence
- 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.
- A watercolour by Thundersley-born artist Richard Sorrell has made the collection.
- Folks may crow all they want about the roar of Niagara or the growlin’ of the sea—but give me a splendacious peal o’ stormbrewed thunder and your other nat’ral music is no more than a penny whistle is to a church organ! Nevermore