Use thunder in a sentence
Sentences starting with thunder
- Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. [5]
- Thunder and lightning! [10]
Sentences ending with thunder
- When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
- Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
- Suddenly the song was hushed, for a flash of lightning had shone down through the aperture beneath which Kallias had stationed the bride and bridegroom, followed by a loud peal of thunder. [10]
- Was I born under The sun or the thunder? [11]
- I fell asleep to pleasant music that night--the patter of rain upon the panes and the dull growling of distant thunder. [5]
- And I call to mind now that he always admired thunder. [5]
- Or was it thunder? [9]
- The coming storm threatening more and more, with now and then a little shiver of wind, a faint show of lightning, and dull grumblings of distant thunder. [5]
- Suddenly I heard the roll of thunder. [10]
- The amphitheatre was soon emptied, amid the flare of lightning and the crash and roll of thunder. [10]
Short sentences using thunder
- Thunder, how she fooled them! [11]
- No, thunder, it's a receipt. [5]
- And the thunder. [5]
- Was that thunder? [4]
- Thunder! [5]
- Thunder! [11]
- More thunder! [5]
- Jove's thunder! [10]
- By thunder! [9]
Sentences containing thunder two or more times
- We sat in our seats three whole hours and never understood anything but the thunder and lightning; and even that was reversed to suit German ideas, for the thunder came first and the lightning followed after. [5]
- The dull rumble of thousands of hoofs deepened into continuous low thunder, and as the steers swept swiftly closer the thunder became a heavy roll. [13]
- When the thunder begins to merely tune up and scrape and saw, and key up the instruments for the performance, strangers say, "Why, what awful thunder you have here! [5]
More example sentences with the word thunder in them
- But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
- Out in the wood, in spite of thunder and lightning, he made her to put on Eppelein's weed and mount the nag. [10]
- For instance, take What's-her-name, that plays those sensational thunder and lightning parts. [5]
- Mingling with these were the angry outcries of those whom the lictors or guardians of the peace had laid hands on, or their indignant companions; and the thunder outside rolled a solemn accompaniment to the mutinous tumult within. [10]
- It turns the war thunder against them. [7]
- There it was vast and lone, Splendid in power, breaking against the stone Walls of the world in thunder symphony. [11]
- Ordinarily when an unsigned poem sweeps across the continent like a tidal wave whose roar and boom and thunder are made up of admiration, delight, and applause, a dozen obscure people rise up and claim the authorship. [5]
- Convinced that Eva, too, had done nothing worthy of punishment, he went towards them to clasp both in his arms, but ere he could do so the clap of thunder which had frightened Katterle so terribly shook the whole room. [10]
- He drove up to the store this evening to the not inappropriate rumble of distant thunder, and he stood up in his wagon in front of the gathering and shook his fist in Jake Wheeler's face. [9]
- It was beginning to put on a threatening aspect; it was tired of standing, tired of the scorching heat; and the thunder was coming nearer, the lightning was flashing brighter. [5]
- The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. [12]
- He would try to make Kathleen's heart beat in harmony with his own; it should not thunder out of time. [11]
- We were like to be drowned with the rain, deafened with the howling wind and the booming thunder, and blinded by the lightning. [5]
- The peal of thunder, which so swiftly followed the lightning, also startled them and when, soon after, a second one shook the house with its crashing, rattling roar, Herr Ernst went out to wake the chief packer. [10]
- The rain and thunder were booming yet, and the anxious family were still waiting, still hoping. [5]
- Why is the thunder silent, and where are the lightnings that played round the peak of Sinai? [10]
- It lightened, the thunder crashed, the wind howled and twisted the treetops. [4]
- Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills. [9]
- The storm raved through the halls and corridors; lightning and thunder raged fiercely overhead; and the terrified wretches, suddenly sobered, rushed about or huddled together, like ants whose nest has been upturned. [10]
- At first he thought it was thunder, then the slipping of a weathered slope of rock. [13]
- But by thunder, this is too much! [9]
- At last the thinner thread of sound is heard by itself, and its deep accompaniment rolls out its thunder no more. [6]
- It swept along, thick and solid, five hundred thousand angels abreast, and every angel carrying a torch and singing--the whirring thunder of the wings made a body's head ache. [5]
- Though I sat there in the awful silence (the roar of water and thunder only emphasized the stillness) full half an hour, I was not encouraged by another nibble. [4]
- And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. [5]
- She could unchain the vengeance which threatened Hermon with a far more terrible danger than the thunder clouds above, under the protection--nay, as it were at the behest of Nemesis. [10]
- The thunder of the supreme struggle and its reverberations will shake the continents for months, and will be felt from Pole to Pole. [4]
- Every rider on the sage will hear that thunder with glad ears. [13]
- Then was heard the low rumbling of distant thunder, then the lightning quivered, and then the darkness of an hour seemed to have gathered in an instant. [12]
- And, Jove's thunder, the lady to whom this plotted murder was to have been sent, is doubtless the mother of the unfortunate marquis, whom the Spanish assassin slew. [10]
- Suddenly, high above the jubilant roar and thunder of the revel, broke the clear peal of a bugle-note. [5]
- In another moment the guide disappeared behind the deluge, and bewildered by the thunder, driven helplessly by the wind, and smitten by the arrowy tempest of rain, I followed. [5]
- The General was the first to drink the toast, and he sat down very modestly amidst a thunder of applause. [9]
- The act followed the desire as the sound follows the blow of the hammer, the thunder the flash of lightning. [10]
- The attempt was successful and, amid the thunder and lightning, greeted with loud cheers, the last man and the last head of cattle reached the land. [10]
- For show, and style, and grandeur, and thunder and lightning and fireworks it outclasses all the previous inventions of man, and raises the limit on the Pope. [5]
- The band immediately struck up "Conquest's joyful thunder waken..." All rose and cried "Hurrah! [2]
- The prisoner was standing at the window, pressing her brow against the iron bars and listening to the lute played by her lover, which sounded, amid the turmoil of the other prisoners, like a bell above the roar of thunder and the storm. [10]
- Does the great Speckled Thunder sigh for the war-path, or is his heart contented with dreaming of the dusky maiden, the Pride of the Forest? [5]
- He went on singing, wilder and wilder, and the thunder begun to mutter, and the wind to wheeze and moan among the ropes, and altogether it was awful. [5]
- The intense dead silence awakened to a long, low, rumbling roll of thunder. [13]
- So, during the short distance which she and the marquise had to traverse in litters, uproar, music, and the thunder of artillery greeted them. [10]
- Recovering her self-control, she answered hastily "The thunder, the storm. [10]
- This speech had several times been interrupted by applause, but now such a tremendous shout of joy went up that it would have drowned the loudest thunder. [10]
- Serapis had perhaps sent the lightning, thunder and rain as a message to warn his foes. [10]
- By thunder, I'll see that you are dismissed. [9]
- We did not see a human being but ourselves during the time, or hear any sounds but those that were made by the wind and the waves, the sighing of the pines, and now and then the far-off thunder of an avalanche. [5]
- Scarcely had she seated herself when all the bells in the city began to ring, and the heavy ordnance and howitzers shook the air with their thunder. [10]
- Then Father Adolf rose up, flushed and excited, crossed himself, and began to thunder in his great voice, "This house is bewitched and accursed! [5]
- They now suddenly rose to a deafening uproar, and while the sound rolled on like approaching thunder, broken by shrill whistles suggesting lightning, the sturdy old apple-seller clambered unaided on to her table, and shouted with all her might: "Caesar! [10]
- The clouds were rolling northward, and the thunder followed the flashes of lightning at longer and longer intervals. [10]
- Suddenly a crackling, rolling noise was heard which seemed to him louder than the most terrific thunder, and he looked round. [2]
- There was a rolling and rumbling of thunder and howling of wind, such as might have heralded the Day of judgment. [10]
- He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity. [5]
- Boom, burst, crash, roar, storm, bellow, blow, thunder, explosion; howl, cry, shout, yell, groan; battle, hell. [5]
- The crash and reverberation of the thunder did not trouble us so much as the swish of the wet branches in our faces and the horrible road, with its mud, tripping roots, loose stones, and slippery rocks. [4]
- The first lightning rent the sky and the storm came up in haste, bursting above our heads, and as the thunder roared closer and closer after the flash I was more and more frightened. [10]
- Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had already passed. [2]
- A storm is raging, with wind and rain and occasional bright flashes of lightning and heavy peals of thunder. [9]
- What 'n thunder 'r' y' abaout, y' darned Portagee? [6]
- Now--but here Barbara's quiet observation suddenly ended; the air was shaken by the roar of cannon from the bastions of the citadel, and the signals of the warders' horns blended with the thunder of the artillery. [10]
- A battering-ram was quickly improvised, and the thunder of its blows upon the door had so encouraging a sound that the spectators broke into wild cheering, and believed the merciful battle won. [5]
- The sound thus produced is compared by some to distant thunder, and by others to the quick roll of a drum. [1]
- The martial notes pealed out, the troops answered with a yell, and down they came against that formidable work, whose outlines were lost in its own cannon-smoke, and whose sides were spouting flame and thunder. [5]
- Then again from out of the west sounded the low, dull, and rumbling roll of thunder. [13]
- The thunder of our two brave cannon announced the Fourth of July, at daylight, to all who were awake. [5]
- The small specks on the horizon sometimes grow into the hugest of thunder clouds. [9]
- A messenger hastened on in advance, the thunder of artillery and fanfare of music greeted the victors, as they marched through the gate. [10]
- Each blow the old man gave him sounded like a clap of thunder, and the howls of the bear ran along till they filled the heavens. [5]
- A deep peal of thunder went rolling and tumbling down the heavens and lost itself in sullen rumblings in the distance. [5]
- As the echoes of its thunder died away, the telegraph clicked one word through every office of the land. [6]
- But the thunder of artillery told her that Rudyard had had his fighting at daybreak, as he had said. [11]
- Thyone, the wife of Alexander the Great's comrade, though absolutely fearless in the presence of human foes, dreaded the thunder by which Zeus announced his anger. [10]
- At length they occurred at longer intervals, the thunder lost its appalling fury, and as the wind drove the storm farther and farther to the southwards, at last it wholly died away. [10]
- The explorers were now assailed with violent storms, and at last took refuge for two days on some uninhabited islands, which by reason of the ill weather and the hurly-burly of thunder, lightning, wind, and rain, they called "Limbo. [4]
- Once I had no fear of the thunder, but now when I hear it I--" Her voice broke, and she began to cry, and could not finish. [5]
- Could I believe my senses when I found that it was turned into a gymnasium, and heard the low thunder of ninepin balls, and the crash of tumbling pins from those precincts? [6]
- But thunder, I mustn't sit here writing all day, with so much business before me. [5]
- If any man moves--even the king--before I give him leave, I will blast him with thunder, I will consume him with lightnings! [5]
- But three hours more, and that next express Would thunder by her, and she, alas! [11]
- Eight or nine months after the distress of the torrents had departed from me, the roar and thunder of the streets of Paris brought it all back again. [5]
- Just at that moment the lightning again flashed, the thunder pealed, and she covered her face with her hands. [10]
- Out of the midst of this thunder and turmoil and tempest rose Dr. Lecher, serene and collected, and the providential length of his enabled his head to show out of it. [5]
- They were terrible looking fellows, clad in broad-skirted gaberdines, of that curious colored cloth called thunder and lightning, and bore as a standard three devil's darning-needles, volant, in a flame-colored field. [4]
- There is nothing like listening to an artist--all his passions passing away in lava, smoke, thunder, lightning, and earthquake. [5]
- Why, thunder and lightning, I should think there was mackerel enough there for six. [5]
- You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. [5]
- I did the labor of writing one address this year, and got thunder for my reward. [7]
- The opera proceeded, it was a piece with a storm in it; the mimic thunder began to mutter, the mimic wind began to wail and sough, and the mimic rain to patter. [5]
- I couldn't hear it thunder at such a time. [5]
- Dada looked on intensely disgusted, and only shook her head when one or another of her companions was sure she felt a shock of earthquake or heard the roll of distant thunder. [10]
- No apparitions, no incantations, no thunder. [5]
- These thoughts darted in wild confusion in a few moments through her burning brain, and while Maurice swung her around it seemed as if the music reached her through the roar and thunder of breakers. [10]
- The truth is I'm afraid of lightning and thunder, and thunder-claps hurt my head. [13]
- Ulrich stood, as if intoxicated, amid the shouts, shrieks of joy, military music, and thunder of the cannon. [10]
- Dawn came as I was fighting the mosquitoes,--a still, sultry dawn with thunder muttering in the distance. [9]
- Soon they heard his tremendous howl, like distant thunder, slowly filling all the sky; and then they heard him speak and say, 'Who can it be that has dared to steal my wampum? [5]
- I can't repeat his speech; my poor words, by the side of his, would sound like the rattle of a drum after a peal of thunder. [10]
- Zeus is preparing his bolts, and if the storm bursts--" Here his discourse was interrupted by the sound of trumpets, mingling with the roar of distant thunder following a vivid flash. [10]
- She had heard him storm about things at times, had watched his big impulses working; had drawn the thunder from his clouds; but there was something moving in him now which she had never seen before. [11]
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