thunderclap
Example Sentences
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The producers of which had the good sense to stream worldwide for all of us outside the nation’s capital who wanted to experience the thunderclap of Page’s Lear.
From Los Angeles Times
The couple’s deaths have sent a thunderclap through Hollywood and beyond, partly because the Reiners had so many friends and connections in creative and political circles.
From Los Angeles Times
In junior high, reading a story in Life magazine about the routine day of a Midwestern doctor “was like hearing a thunderclap.”
He remains a thunderclap from the baseline, but has options other than ferocious groundstrokes.
His chapters end with a wink as often as a thunderclap.
From Los Angeles Times
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