Examples of thunderstorm in a Sentence
There are thunderstorms in the forecast.
The weather service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning.
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However, airports in Texas, New York, New Jersey and Mississippi are experiencing ground stops, ground delays or departure delays due to thunderstorms and/or winds.
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025
Elsewhere, forecasters also are monitoring the system over the central tropical Atlantic that is currently a disorganized cluster of thunderstorms.
—David Schutz, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
An intense summer thunderstorm in 1976 created an enormous flood that killed 142 people.
—Ellen Wohl
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
The other tropical wave farther east had a concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms located several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, but lacking closed surface circulation.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025
Elsewhere, forecasters also are monitoring the system over the central tropical Atlantic that is currently a disorganized cluster of thunderstorms.
—David Schutz, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
An intense summer thunderstorm in 1976 created an enormous flood that killed 142 people.
—Ellen Wohl
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
The other tropical wave farther east had a concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms located several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, but lacking closed surface circulation.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Thunderstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thunderstorm. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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thunderstorm
noun
thun·der·storm
-ˌstȯ(ə)rm 
: a storm accompanied by lightning and thunder
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