Example sentences for: thunderous

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

  • Nothing much happens in the empty mansion, but when something does--for instance, a thunderous pounding on a pair of big doors, as if all the characters' accumulated nervous energies had been focused on one spot--the movie's reticence pays off like gangbusters (or ghostbusters).

  • The most spectacular of them features a 9,500-pound (4,318-kg) killer whale who leaps gracefully more than 20 ft (6 m) out of the water, only to fall back again in a thunderous crescendo of dazzling spray.

  • The compositions were ingeniously conceived suites, where a boppish swing might break into a Cuban cha-cha-cha; or a trumpet's eerie whisper, into a thunderous row of piano clusters.

  • For a rare desert experience, climb to the top of a dune and listen to the musical — or thunderous — sound as the sand slides down.

  • A staunch opponent of the Communist regime, Wojtyla returned to Poland in 1979 as Pope and drew great, thunderous crowds at every stop.


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