thundering
Example Sentences
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As he dominated center stage, the thundering chorus of his speeches — “I am … somebody” — inspired his followers even as it sometimes sounded like a painful plea.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 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
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
Richael Keller has always been sensitive to loud commercials, but when thundering streaming-service ads disturbed her sleeping newborn, her reaction was heated enough to blaze a path to the California state Capitol.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025
It enraged him as he listened to the thundering feet of his retreating children and heard Mary Anne scream, “Torah! Torah! Torah!”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
