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thundering

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verb

present participle of thunder

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of thundering
Verb
Unfortunately, mid-rehearsal, their mother, Rose (an absolutely magnificent McDonald), comes thundering onto the stage, usurping Jocko’s leadership and sucking up all of the air into the room. Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024 The beauty of Baja transcends the thundering race course, offering a blend of experiences that elevate any visit. Shelby Knick, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 But in more rural areas of Watauga County and others nearby, where landslides scarred Appalachian slopes and the storm sent water thundering into narrow valleys, the damage to roads, homes and the power grid was more severe. Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024 On Sunday night, participants filled the sports ground with thundering cheers. Chris Lau, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thundering
Adjective
  • Noise level Pet fountains are never completely silent, but some are louder than others.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • For years loud car exhausts, stereos and late-night partying in the downtown corridor have been at the center of complaints.
    Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Topline Losses from a pair of big-name companies, Apple and Tesla, headlined a broader slip in the stock market Thursday, a rocky start to the year’s first trading session after 2023 and 2024’s roaring bull market.
    Derek Saul, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The audience went wild, roaring with laughter and applause.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Yet given the league and many of its most prominent players' presence in social justice efforts, their silence around the violence being fueled by Rwanda and the UAE is all the more deafening.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • That visual message was audibly reinforced at a deafening level as the crowd cheered their neighbors who spoke against the proposal and booed a NIPSCO official and other business leaders who spoke in favor of it.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • Three were arrested, including — and here’s perhaps the wildest part — an unrelated man who showed up armed at the scene hours later, after a relative told him about the shooting, surrendered his firearms to police and began yelling at them.
    Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Everybody was yelling his name.
    Bruce Feldman, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Although it can be characterized by a ringing, pulsing, buzzing, hissing or squealing sound, audiologists say the source of the condition lies in the brain's neural networks.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But with a will Strike all your harps and set them ringing; On hill and heath Let every breath Throw all its power into singing!
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, at Victoria Falls, the Zambezi crashes into thunderous gorges below—sending mist into the air that often catches the sun in fleeting rainbows.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The announcement, made in a city where three-fourths of residents are foreign-born, was greeted with thunderous applause as Trump said his next administration was going to root out undocumented criminals.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Thundering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thundering. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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