thunder

Initially, a few showers are likely to reach Cornwall and the West Country during Tuesday evening, but heavier downpours bringing thunder and lightning are likely to hit later in the night.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

He was the last speaker of the three-hour event, and thunder had been audible outside for over an hour.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

"There's thunder, that's good," said a firefighter at the command post set up in the town's sports hall.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

They saw messages from the divine in thunder and lightning, bird flight and the entrails of sacrificed animals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

I’d heard its roar and thought it was thunder.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

As Jalla thunders towards its climax, it erupts amid what is presumably Cyprus's entire stock of pyrotechnics.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Another scene, in which a captured German officer demands the young private’s name and Mainwaring thunders: “Don’t tell him, Pike” is routinely voted one of Britain’s funniest TV moments.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 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

I throw myself through the flap and then immediately up against the sidewall as the yak thunders past, his crooked horn just inches from my chest.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

"Where is the money?" supporters of Magyar's party, Tisza, thundered in unison, referring to accusations against local Fidesz politicians over millions of euros of public funds that have gone missing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Nasa's Artemis II mission thundered away from Florida's coast, taking its four crew members on their historic journey to circle the Moon.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Footsteps thundered across the pasture and Roz leaped into the fight.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Noise level, given we're dealing with state-of-the-art racing machines thundering around a circuit, is actually a big talking point currently and particularly pertinent for neurodivergent fans.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

“It was raining straight down, it was thundering and it was 27 degrees,” he said, recalling watching the storm early Sunday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

I bolted down the hall, clutching Fig against my thundering chest, and planted myself in front of the TV.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas