thunder

That thunder you hear rumbling is Walt Disney yelling down: What’s the point?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Crowds braved record heat to attend US President Donald Trump's grand July Fourth celebrations in Washington Saturday, until sharp winds, thunder and lightning prompted evacuations and the scene descended into chaos, anger and confusion.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

But the top note, the sauce, is the silence enveloping it all, peppered by the thunder of a squall just outside.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

"It wasn't just individual flashes of lightning, it was like strobe lighting and a constant rumble of thunder for probably about 15 or 20 minutes," he told BBC Scotland News.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Whenever a plane travels that fast, it creates a shock wave called a sonic boom that sounds like a loud clap of thunder.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

He’s quick to slide his board into one of the glassy tubes, gliding out before the wave thunders down onto the reef, a monstrous spray of lapping white froth raining down behind him.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

"I wanted to come and imagine where each of them was sitting," she explained, gesturing to different points on the ground as traffic thunders by.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024

Which creature could be found “below the thunders of the upper deep,” according to a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023

Yet this new chamber music triptych dances more than it thunders.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

His gods were already waiting for him when he arrived: Tyr, one-handed, and gray Odin gallows-god, and Thor of the thunders.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

A world-cleansing storm has thundered ominously on the horizon ever since “The Bear” began.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

When CNN co-moderator Elex Michaelson asked Villaraigosa if he would cancel California’s much-maligned high-speed rail project, the candidate’s emphatic “No” thundered down like a Lebron James dunk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

“A month of bombing has achieved nothing,” its cover thundered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Everton pushed for a winner and Gueye, another of Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations heroes, almost got it when he thundered a fierce strike against the bar.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

To which my dad thundered, “Ya. ¡Basta, Celia! I don’t want to hear about it anymore!”

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

That was the beginning of the chants, arguably louder than for any other player in Dodger Stadium history, stronger than Moo-kie, deeper than Fred-die, chants thundering enough to seemingly be heard for a lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

They had Toulouse rocking and they landed another blow, a rolling line-out maul thundering over the try-line with substitute Hiddleston touching down to give Warriors the lead for the first time.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

What a perverse outcome that would be for Catholic Charities, after its thundering 9-0 victory in America’s highest court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

With that, she sweeps out the door, leaving me with a thundering heart and the royal seal burning in my pocket.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black