Example sentences for: thundered

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

  • According to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash , financial speculation during the 1920s grew so feverish that "even the cathedral voice of William Jennings Bryan, which once had thundered against the cross of gold," was "enlisted in the sorry task of selling swampland" in Florida.

  • The river in front of us thundered over the road where just the day before a wooden bridge had spanned it.

  • Chris Patten, who himself comes from the "wet" side of the Tory fence, sharply increased social spending in his budgets, the business community thundered (rightly, I happen to think) that the proposals had been introduced with scant regard for long-term implications.

  • To hold one's fist stiffly in the air in a gesture of ridiculous defiance while the bass amplifier thundered and the guitar shrieked and our man on tenor sax honked deliriously, and to see a barroom audience respond with shouts and their own idiotic fists in the beery air--that was to laugh.

  • (As the fundamentalist preacher thundered: In the fiery furnaces of Hell, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.


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