Example sentences for: thunder

How can you use “thunder” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Creationism is as good a hypothesis as any for how the universe began," editorialized the Topeka Capital-Journal . "And we're pretty sure thunder is caused by Jews doing some sort of loud Jewy thing," the paper did not add.

  • ('We're going to steal the Internet's thunder!

  • In Richard Conniff's urbane account of travelers' putdowns of some of the great and not so great cities of the world [XIV,3], he quotes a splendid passage from Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem on London, which culminates with the words, “Here falling houses thunder on your head, / And here a female atheist talks you dead.”

  • If the clouds turn dark and ominous and it starts to thunder while you're out for a stroll, you can find a phone and call the weather service, or you can ignore them on the grounds that predictions about the weather are often wrong, or you can take cover under the assumption that it's probably going to rain.

  • The thunderbird, a mythical creature whose eyes flashed the lightning and whose beating wings rumbled the thunder, figures in many of the carvings in the park.


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