thunderstroke
Example Sentences
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"It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live."
From Time Magazine Archive
The world seems to be on tiptoe, listening for a thunderstroke of Fate.
From The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War by Caine, Hall, Sir
This fell on the province with the power and rapidity of a thunderstroke; it made no cry, no movement; Bretagne expired.
From The Regent's Daughter by Dumas père, Alexandre
It had been almost silent along the lines when the enemy's batteries opened fire with one enormous thunderstroke, which was followed by continuous salvos.
From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip
It had been almost silent along the lines when the enemy's batteries opened fire with one enormous thunderstroke, which was followed by continuous salvos.
From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
