How To Use Thunderous In A Sentence

The loud thunderous music blaring from the beach nearby remained passive to the girl's ears, as she sat deep in thought.
I only had to look at Katie's thunderous expression to realize she'd not had a good day.
The audience loaded the champion with thunderous applause.
The Waterford keeper advanced from his line to spectacularly parry Holt's thunderous shot from 18 yards before the ball had been hacked to safety.
When he reached the top, a thunderous cheer went up.

They made a dramatic entrance to thunderous music and suddenly the hall was full of giant devils, spiders, dragons and other figures.
Everyone seems oblivious to the rain falling from a worryingly thunderous sky, a mere inconvenience to this hardy bunch.
This thunderous indifference goes deeper still: sales of verse are pitiful. Times, Sunday Times
The applause was so thunderous, the walls were shaking. Times, Sunday Times
There's ample activity in the surrounds, with thunderous bass creating a huge, enveloping soundfield.
The audience however enjoyed the production and gave full vent to their feelings with thunderous applause at the conclusion.
Dawn came with some nasty surprises of massive thunderous cracks.
The thunderous noise that had greeted City when they came out disappeared - the tie it seemed was now dead. The Sun
The haunting Sounding depicting rays of sunlight through thunderous clouds is the stand-out piece of the whole exhibition.
The sound of immense boulders tearing through stone was thunderous and struck a powerful blow to the men's morale.
So the pachydermic concept with the thunderous footfall is this: can a painter who veers back and forth between emphatically paint-as-paint abstractions (Richter squeegees the stuff across canvases on the studio floor) and a form of painstaking realism be taken seriously as a whole? Looking Back At Richter
Val Graham's team secured the prize to thunderous applause after a playoff.
Until then, the play is set in a sort of Scots mock - baronial splendour, filled with tinctures and libraries of apothecaries' texts, and complete with thunderous thunderbox.
The film is a superb mythopoetic epic, full of thunderous emotion and as visually awe-inducing as anything you've ever seen.
Shortly afterward, an F/A-18, a modern Navy jet fighter, flew low at one end of the runway, punched its afterburners and treated the crowd to a thunderous sonic boom as it passed. In the Navy, 100 Years of Altitude
He raised his head into the air and let out a thunderous roar.
Her voice was thunderous… she had never been so angry in her life.
Wherever US troops are present, the violence is present and the troops are everywhere - in their rumbling tanks, thunderous choppers and provocative foot patrols.
This provoked thunderous applause from the 13,000 people attending the meeting. Times, Sunday Times
Our main trouble was finding properties away from thunderous road noise. Times, Sunday Times
He can dazzle with quick moves to the basket, culminating in thunderous dunks.
From the pool came a thunderous splash, accompanied by peals of laughter. COMPULSION
With great thunderousness, there was silence in the extreme South East of Europe as Turkish and Russian forces failed to clash.
And the applause from the huge hall was thunderous.
Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
There was a loud, thunderous applause as she gave them one last smile and burst into tears.
The thunderous roar of the crowd is deafening even when the stadium is less than half-full.
Plus Glenn were rocked back on their heels three minutes later when Kevin Savage lashed a thunderous shot off the underside of the Glenn crossbar and into the net.
As I stepped onto the pavement, a thunderous roar ripped across the sky and the crowds looked up shouting oohs and aahs normally reserved for local council firework displays.
The big man dribbles it downcourt through two defenders, dishes to Arenas and gets it back for an extremely thunderous reverse… layup.
These shows only lasted a few seconds but were always followed by thunderous peals of laughter, especially by the ‘artist’ himself.
This brought him off of his cloud of thunderous anger boiling up in him.
Behind them the waves continued to pound the beach - a clamouring symphony of thunderous echoes that reverberated throughout the tangled maze of the pier.
By now she knew that each thunderous outburst of the volcano launched a dark roostertail of ash out from the central column, feathering the sky with falling cinders and bombs. Firestorm
Both parties then returned to the House chamber where they whiled away a non-productive afternoon in thunderous denunciations of each other.
The endless sound echoed like thunderous footfalls, beating a tattoo on the inside of her skull.
Not that he's abandoned the drums: Mr. Arnalds could be considered a "post-rock" composer, his music as evocative as that of thunderous ensembles like Explosions in the Sky and fellow countrymen and one-time tourmates Sigur R ó s. Dust of the Old, Boot Up the New
Kirkby actually came closest to scoring when a thunderous long-range effort from Steve Chapman skimmed the crossbar.
One subject that still elicits a thunderous look is Thatcher. Times, Sunday Times
My son, who is sitting in the furthest possible corner of the back seat, is looking thunderous. Times, Sunday Times
The endless sound echoed like thunderous footfalls, beating a tattoo on the inside of her skull.
Hit the bar with a thunderous header on a raid forward and looked a menace on the overlap with his pace. Times, Sunday Times
The thunderous whump of the lone remaining helicopter echoed over the frozen terrain as it circled to land near the iceboat. Ice Hunt
Scuba diving in the afternoon, we noticed the cloud massing like a thunderous frown over the island and the water began to churn around us.
He then proceeds to make a thunderous sound that always makes me jump and squirm with embarrassment if we are in public. Times, Sunday Times
They received a thunderous cheer last night when thanked by the stadium announcer. The Sun
The thunderous roar of the crowd is deafening even when the stadium is less than half-full.
Finally, a seemingly reluctant Salonen arrived for a solo bow to thunderous applause and a surprise impromptu fanfare from the brass players on stage. All Over But the Shouting
As the game progressed, the Warriors began to control the rink, throwing thunderous checks and opening up the offence.
The title track tries to deflate its portentous musical backing of crashing cymbals and thunderous pianos with daft lyrics about needing a new eiderdown and some binoculars.
The thunderous declamatory tones preferred by his father, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, are absent.
A thunderous roar is heard and a mushroom cloud surges into the stratosphere. The Sun
Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
State television showed footage of the thunderous explosions, which shook the area.
A fine move before a thunderous shot. Times, Sunday Times
The crowd responded with applause suitably thunderous for a woman with such commanding stage presence.
In every way, the greatness of the deed and the thunderousness of the propaganda should be emphasized.
As we tour the house, there is no sign of the obsessive perfectionist whose thunderous features can silence a gallery with a single stony glare.
The sudden eruption of gunfire was so thunderous that the very air seemed to vibrate.
Gazing at the floor with glossy eyes, the thunderous chant of his name still ringing in his ears, he fumbles for words to describe his euphoria.
He was cheered on by thunderous applause from the crowd and screams of'You can do it! Times, Sunday Times
The final race went to the superb young apprentice Tom Queally who gave 10/1 shot Sea Storm a thunderous ride to beat Takes Tutu.
The voice of an unseen stage-hand called thunderously to an invisible "Bill" to commere quick. Jill the Reckless
Hit the bar with a thunderous header on a raid forward and looked a menace on the overlap with his pace. Times, Sunday Times
In the fight with Martin, Liston was poleaxed by a thunderous right hand and was counted out.
It's a thunderous, powerful record housing the sound of a band that appears to have a near-kinetic quality.
After a burst of thunderous applause, the children received a lot of presents.
‘We advise the public to unplug electronic appliances during thunderous weather to prevent damage if electricity networks are struck by lightning,’ he added.
Dressed in blue and gray suits, they climb out, waving American flags, to thunderous applause.
The audience responded with thunderous applause.
A thunderous roar rent the arrow's howling passage, the sound carrying the taint of pain.
It was no wonder he sat down to such thunderous applause. Times, Sunday Times
The endless sound echoed like thunderous footfalls, beating a tattoo on the inside of her skull.
The critical mass was also evident in the thunderous singing. Christianity Today
The first half concluded with a trapeze act that got nervous applause throughout and a thunderous ovation at the end.
The full-time whistle in Rotterdam brought a thunderous roar that shook the stadium. The Sun
Scuba diving in the afternoon, we noticed the cloud massing like a thunderous frown over the island and the water began to churn around us.
With this she launches into a series of grinds, wiggles and shimmies, to thunderous applause. Times, Sunday Times
A stunned Rooney drops Souness to the ground like a baby but Moyes carries on throwing punches regardless and floors his young starlet with a thunderous blow to the chin.
That gave Rovers renewed impetus and Baggio nearly scored a brilliant goal with a thunderous drive that bounced back off the crossbar.
The six riders jumped at the thunderous exclamation from a bush, which revealed a tall, solidly built man brandishing a sword.
The handful of coaches, scouts and parents were stunned into disbelieving silence before breaking into thunderous applause.
I watched the operation from behind the living-room curtains because of my father's thunderous mood and because if I were any closer I'd vomit.
The thunderous, roaring rain seemed to echo her thoughts.
Other thunderous detonations resounded from the area of the airport before the all-clear siren sounded, leaving an eerie quiet.
The audience loaded the champion with thunderous applause.
Thursday Kerr was in a thunderous mood because Cosla announced huge rises in council tax bills.
Ontanga, with their synchronised dance patterns and thunderous foot stomping, should certainly get the audience's feet moving.
But he could not ignore the roar from the Taiwanese tourists in the audience when the ravishing kimono-clad kathoey completed her expert lip sync to a song by Sally Yeh, nor could he ignore the thunderous applause from the Latinos when a group of deviants in sequined, feathered, flame-red dresses performed an elaborate dance routine to the song “Baila Amigo.” THE MOONLIT EARTH
No mad scientist film ever seemed to operate on such a direct and conscious level of Old Testament thunderousness.
They both froze, listening to the quick rasps of each other's breaths over the thunderous pounding of their own hearts.
The four male voices of the Hilliard earned thunderous foot-stamping applause from a capacity audience at Canongate Kirk.
The thunderous roar of these guns of war ripped through York's Museum Gardens today to celebrate the Queen's accession to the throne.
It was no wonder he sat down to such thunderous applause. Times, Sunday Times
To his left thunderous cloud heads form, taking shape in colours of grey and blue.
Camera flashes illuminate the speaker as she concludes her two-hour address to a thunderous standing ovation.
Anna looked up at Lachlan and, to her great surprise, she saw that his expression was thunderous.
Face red and eyes a thunderous cloud he took two more steps towards her, until she was nearly under him.
So, having imbibed too much at the previous night's wild Bacchanalia, what is the prescription which should now be followed in order to relieve the distress of this thunderous hangover most swiftly?
Faith looked up to see a man striding towards them with a thunderous expression, dragging a little girl with him.
there is more than one meaning for ‘gjöll’ - one of these meanings can be directly translated: noisy, clamant, thunderous and raging.
The applause was so thunderous, the walls were shaking. Times, Sunday Times
Shifting his imposing frame, his expression takes on a thunderous aspect, suggesting this is the wrong question to ask.
Drummer Chris contributed mightily with his thunderousness, and Omar's trumpet/keyboard/percussion playing also added a lot.
Four minutes later, Morgan struck down the other end and all that was left was the thunderous acclamation of the team.
With a thunderous cheer in response from the audience, they began to perform.
Four of the McCartney sisters received thunderous applause after a most eloquent and moving allocution from the distinguished Political Editor of The Sunday World.
Montgomerie could only manage a second round 71 despite a superb start at PGA Golf de Catalunya - and the thunderous expression on his face told its own story.
The hall erupts with thunderous clapping, cheering and foot stamping. Times, Sunday Times
The visitors' stands, while smaller than the home stands, nonetheless exploded in a thunderous round of raucous applause for their team.
Travelling at the rate of over eighty miles per hour, all I could hear was thunderous air rushing pass my ears.
A thunderous Federer forehand winner saved one match point, but as the Swiss tried to force the pace on the second, he played a forehand airshot. Taipei Times
The thunderous roars come in waves, chants, yells and shouts. The Sun
Dowley was unlucky to see her own hat-trick opportunity disallowed after a thunderous short corner strike was judged to have illegally deflected off a defender.
This provoked thunderous applause from the 13,000 people attending the meeting. Times, Sunday Times
Under the weight of massive, thunderous protests and growing international pressure, Damascus has pledged to withdraw its troops from Lebanon in line with the Taif Accords.
The noise was thunderous when they took to the stage. The Sun
No other player of the modern age has such an unassuming demeanour off the course and such a thunderous presence on it.
There was a rumble, a kind of thunderous sound, and then we were engulfed in a cloud of dust and debris.
There is less thunderous slogging, more placement and deflection. Times, Sunday Times
The lake invades the glacier's deep chasms and crevasses, detonating thunderous explosions as great shards of ice detach and re-emerge as icebergs.
Fearing for the safety of nearby combustibles, I whipped the pan off the stove (blistering my thumb in the process) and was overwhelmed with thunderous applause.
I was genuinely quite shaken by the film, though - it's all machine guns rattling thunderously in your face and metal clanking noises - but the gore is pretty believable.
Off he went on 83 minutes to a thunderous round of applause that was almost as loud as the noise over the Etihad last night. The Sun
As for Colin Montgomerie, a 5-5 finish for 69 and an eight-under-par aggregate had the three-time champion in one of his more thunderous moods.
The thunderous devices which now pass for fireworks can partially, and sometimes totally, deafen babies and young children, as there is no way of protecting them from the auditory onslaught, even if they are kept indoors.
In an environment where any passiveness will be rewarded with a thunderous blow to the body from an equally vicious opponent, such application is not just necessary, but beneficial.
Seconds later, a thunderous explosion sounded and cattle that were pointed towards water now bolted away from the explosion.
The auditorium was silent for a moment, then a thunderous wave of applause broke.
world events of thunderous import
The mirror shattered instantly, smashing to the ground with a thunderous crash.
Ruairi Gavin cracked a thunderous shot against the crossbar and Thomas McNally met the rebound and forced a great save from the Westport keeper, Mark McCaffrey.
A tala (East Indian time cycle) is called out, starting the tablas and whipping the piece into a furious frenzy with some thunderous percussion at the end.
The thousands watching broke into thunderous applause and a roar of jubilation!
Last Sunday there were some narky, petty exchanges and some fisticuffs but there were hardly any thunderous collisions.
The later, post-World War II version of this genre featured explosive, distorted electric guitar work, thunderous drumming, and fierce, declamatory vocals.
Yet the din was overwhelming, a thunderous, persistent clamour, which pummelled one, anaesthetized the mind, annihilated thought. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Yet they were reared hazardously one on another, and ever and anon flashing towers and rainbow minarets crumbled thunderously into the flood. CHAPTER 24
Whatever the shortcomings of the staging, this was an enthralling occasion, received with a thunderous ovation.
There was a corresponding echo with thunderous clapping.
The protective armor cowlings lifted up and the retros let loose with a thunderous blast that slowed the ship down a lot, but not enough.
After a burst of thunderous applause, the children received a lot of presents.
The broad palms of his tail are flirted high in the air; then smiting the surface, the thunderous concussion resounds for miles.
The other four occupants of the pub replied to this with extremely heavy, thunderous expressions.
The sound, particularly in the battle scenes, is awesome in its stupefying thunderousness.
The thunderous sound bounced off the buildings and carried through the afternoon sky.
But I hadn't time to feel too satisfied, for in that moment there was a new thunderous cannonade from the Russians, much closer now; the whistle of shot sounded overhead, there was a great babble of shouting and orders from the cavalry behind me, the calls of the Lights and Heavies sounded, and the whole mass of our horse began to move off westward, retiring again. The Sky Writer
Sporadic gunfire echoed from the east, followed by a thunderous explosion that spewed a fireball into the air, about three blocks from the group.
Then there are two abrupt, but soft, short chords that will represent, to the imaginative, the quick fixing of the eagle's heart on some prey beneath; and there follows a sudden precipitation down the keyboard, _fortississimo_, that represents the thunderous swoop of the eagle with startling effect. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
I was expecting to hear thunderous sounds roaring out of the piano. Times, Sunday Times
He received thunderous applause on his first game back after a six-month ban. The Sun
The thunderous roar of an unmuffled V - 8 is music to my bleeding ears.
She made her entry to the sound of thunderous applause.
Three or four more thunderous crumps echoed out over the surrounding forest.
They fell to discussing Sedgemore's multitudinous achievements, his thunderous oratory, the life-changing bills he piloted through the Commons.
After a moment his thunderous brows drew apart and his narrowed eyes resumed their usual look of sapphirine affability. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
Princess gybed neatly enough; the big lugsails flapped thunderously for a moment and then as the sheets were eased off she lay over close hauled on the other tack. Hornblower And The Crisis
Faber unveils the manifold hypocrisies at every layer of that society in the context of a story that builds to a thunderous climax while leaving ajar the door to a possible sequel.
City were denied an equaliser on 32 minutes by the woodwork as City's latest young international Levent Yalcin's thunderous shot from 25 yards clipped the post.
There was something like a confirmation but it was such a thunderous roar that it overdrove the speakers. The Man with Two Faces
While the penalty prompted singing and cheering from the crowd, the drop kick produced thunderous applause and brought a delirious crowd to their feet.
She made her entry to the sound of thunderous applause.
first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate
His thunderous left-foot shot from 20 yards was his third goal in as many games and his sixth of the season. The Sun
Off he went on 83 minutes to a thunderous round of applause that was almost as loud as the noise over the Etihad last night. The Sun
The camaraderie among the students was such that there was thunderous applause and ovation for excellence, irrespective of the institution to which the performers belonged.
Once home, he had giggled with unabashed glee over the memory of Professor Hawthorne's thunderous expression.
_Lumine sic tremulo terra et cava caerula candent_, to the thunderous oath of Achilles -- Latin Literature
The critical mass was also evident in the thunderous singing. Christianity Today
But very strong winds send them moving, and they rise into the sky with a thunderous roar of wings. Times, Sunday Times
Properly packed, the shot barrel produces a thunderous roar and devastating effect on close-range targets.
Shifting his imposing frame, his expression takes on a thunderous aspect, suggesting this is the wrong question to ask.
He received thunderous applause on his first game back after a six-month ban. The Sun
Alan Lewis's hunch has been proved correct; this is, indeed, a game where every yard is gained only after thunderous collision.
The loud thunderous sound of footsteps running into the valley arose.
Then, with a thunderous roar that spread across the entire mountain, the rocky behemoth tore apart.
Gilmartin's thunderous mood wasn't helped by what Lawlor said next.
Reality is a thunderous cacophony of millions of impressions surging in on us at every moment.
He then proceeds to make a thunderous sound that always makes me jump and squirm with embarrassment if we are in public. Times, Sunday Times
The same player rocked Carlow with a thunderous shot off the goalpost for a spectacular goal to put Port ahead for the first time after 12 minutes.
The trade, which had laid the Arangi well up under the lee of this outjutting point of Malaita, was now failing, so that she began to roll in the easy swells with crashings of sheets and tackles and thunderous flappings of her sails. CHAPTER IV
As chants of his name by the delighted fans grew ever more thunderous, Ernests seeked refuge in a 'towelhead' moment to rally his concentration. WordPress.com News
The critical mass was also evident in the thunderous singing. Christianity Today
Having said that, he is a thunderously awesome singer and had the engineers at Battery in absolute thrall.
Thompson, said Frances Willard, “caught the universal ear and set the key of that mighty orchestra, organized with so much toil and hardship, in which the tender and exalted strain of the Crusade violin still soared aloft, but upborne now by the clanging cornets of science, the deep trombones of legislation, and the thunderous drums of politics and parties.” LAST CALL
Hit the bar with a thunderous header on a raid forward and looked a menace on the overlap with his pace. Times, Sunday Times
The cries of protest are lost in thunderous applause, and then a hush descends.
When the voice spoke, it was a hoarse croak, thunderous and deep.
By spreading out, the band try to claim the stage, however with only ten performances under their belts, what lacks in self-assurance is certainly compensated for in mystifyingly thunderous guitars.
They were ordered to give him a " thunderous ovation, " and they did.
Her eyes were entranced in the gray sky, just visible outside of the Plexiglas, watching the thunderous clouds roll through the sky like an avalanche.
Their stench was suffocating at close range, and the ground trembled beneath each thunderous footstep.
A thunderous roar made Steel turn momentarily and up on the gentle hill behind them he saw flame spout from the mouths of ten cannon. Man of Honour
He was cheered on by thunderous applause from the crowd and screams of'You can do it! Times, Sunday Times
The hall erupts with thunderous clapping, cheering and foot stamping. Times, Sunday Times

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