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Example sentences for "thundering"

Lexicographically close words:
thundercloud; thunderclouds; thundered; thundereth; thunderheads; thunderings; thunderous; thunders; thunderstorm; thunderstorms
  1. The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings; But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

  2. Huge steamers are dashing and thundering by, leaving long trains of wreathing smoke in their rear.

  3. Bergenheim, in a thundering voice, as he seized the magistrate by the collar in a bewildered way.

  4. They all went over to the windows that opened out into the court, whence the sound of voices seemed to arise, and where they could hear the master's voice thundering out his commands.

  5. Over The Young Pole stood toweringly Bill The Hollander, his shirt almost in ribbons about his thick bulging neck, thundering as only Hollanders thunder "Have you got enough you Gottverdummer Polak?

  6. By this time there came a thundering knock, that drove in the doors of the house almost.

  7. And in such moments, when they might concentrate the whole of their attention on the pleasant fiction enacted before them, the sound of the cannon thundering in the distance would more than once recall them to the reality.

  8. When this was over and the troopers had trotted out amid thunders of applause, the great doors again slid open as if by magic and a battery of light artillery rushed in, the band thundering out "For He Is a Son of a Gun.

  9. There was a fearful breaking and splintering and all at once it was as if the cliff crumbled and trees and boulders and ice and snow came thundering and crashing down into the roadway.

  10. Labor and glory and terror leap as thy thundering feet go by; thy axles burn with the steady sweep, till on wings of fire they fly!

  11. Amid a tempest of music and the thundering song of two hundred thousand voices repeating a litany of love, the throne itself began to revolve upon the silver cone that supported it.

  12. But I'm not to be caught so easy, you thundering varmint!

  13. Citizen--it is Sylves--" Agricola sprang up with a thundering oath.

  14. As they become longer they lift the whole bridge, and all the thundering locomotives and miles of goods-trains cannot bring that bridge down again until the power of the sunshine has been withdrawn.

  15. At last, a thundering at the gate proclaimed the arrival of a band of brigands.

  16. Who knows if he ever heard the thundering crash with which the Elk River bridge went out?

  17. In his great castle on the promontory of Sagres, with the voice of the Atlantic thundering in his ears, and its mists and sprays bounding his vision, he felt the full force of the stream, and stretched his arms to the mysterious West.

  18. As its familiar and pathetic notes rolled over the water and thrilled through the spirits of the soldiers, the hills reverberated with a thundering response from the united voices of both armies.

  19. The words were still thundering through his blood.

  20. And as she did so, came another thundering fall, another upward rush of flame, as a fresh portion of the roof fell eastwards, covering the Loggia and blotting out the figures of both woman and child.

  21. The thundering of the battering-ram guided them also to the spot.

  22. It broke with a thundering roar into sheets of foam, and then opened before them a smooth channel.

  23. The battering-ram was all the time thundering away outside.

  24. On the other side, by the effect of the land, the wind failed us so completely for a moment that the Tremolino's two great lofty sails hung idle to the masts in the thundering uproar of the seas breaking upon the shore we had left behind.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thundering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anathema; ban; banging; blasphemy; boom; booming; damnation; deafening; deity; denunciation; echo; echoing; execration; fabulous; gigantic; goddess; growl; grumble; grumbling; imprecation; intense; lingering; loud; malediction; noise; pealing; penetrating; persistent; piercing; proscription; pungent; rebound; reeking; resonant; resounding; reverberation; roaring; rolling; rumble; rumbling; sounding; spanking; thumping; thunder; thundering; thunderous; thunderstorm; walloping; whacking; whaling; whopping