Example sentences for: thunder

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

  • Ontario’s history is preserved in lovingly reconstructed villages and forts marking the passage of French Jesuit missionaries at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, a fur-trading post at Thunder Bay, military positions at Fort George (Niagara) and Fort Henry (Kingston), and the pioneer communities at Upper Canada Village (Morrisburg) and Black Creek (Toronto).

  • 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.”

  • "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.

  • But The Heiress , for all its un-Jamesian blood and thunder, remains the truer adaptation.

  • Behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron, Dr. Cheney would thunder, Is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon.


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