Word Finder - thundered

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To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.

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It thundered continuously.

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To make a noise like thunder.

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The train thundered along the tracks.

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To talk with a loud, threatening voice.

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To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

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"Get back to work at once!", he thundered.

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To produce something with incredible power

His voice thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

Her heart skipped a few beats and then thundered.

Lightning flashed so bright that the room lit up, and shortly afterward it thundered so loud that the windows rattled.

He never forgot "the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o'er the tide, And the dead captains as they lay In their graves o'erlooking the tranquil bay, Where they in battle died."

This was none the less distasteful to the Republicans, who thundered, against personal government, and to the Liberals, who clamoured for the Cortes and the budget.

He dressed himself in women's clothes, made a collection of little dogs and hid in the cellars when it thundered.

In Hungary the civil war, which had thundered at the gates of Vienna, was brought to a close by Russian intervention.

There we sat together under that part of the roof which leaked the least, while it showered and thundered without.

Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot.

Hurrah!" thundered from all sides, one regiment after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then "Hurrah!"... Then the general march, and again "Hurrah!

And when the now-legendary 'a long time ago' appeared and John Williams' epic score thundered out of the speakers, we were transported.

Meanwhile Savonarola continued to denounce the abuses of the church and the guilt and corruption of mankind, and thundered forth predictions of heavenly wrath.

His fiery zeal could not blind him to the vices of the court, and heedless of personal danger he thundered against the profane honours that were addressed almost within the precincts of St Sophia to the statue of the empress.

It sets its face against the idealism which either thundered against the world for its deficiencies, or sought something finer than reality.

If he sided with Becket and thundered against hispersecutor, there wassmalldoubt that the king of England would adhere to the schism.

They have told us how he never shot at a bird perching nor fished with a net, the creatures not having in such a case a fair chance for their lives; how he conducted himself in court and among villagers; how he ate his food, and lay in his bed, and sat in his carriage; how he rose up before the old man and the mourner; how he changed countenance when it thundered, and when he saw a grand display of viands at a feast.

Rome, when it stepped into their place, did no more than safeguard its continuance; in the East Rome acted as a Hellenistic power, and if, when the legions had thundered past, the brooding East " plunged in thought again," that thought was largely directed by the Greek schoolmaster who followed in the legions' train.

Hence when Henry returned to Germany in 1078 Worms, Spires and many other places opened their gates to him and contributed freely to his cause; nevertheless his troops were beaten in three encounters and Pope Gregory thundered anew against him in March 1080.

Their resentment was inflamed by a powerful party, embracing the magistrates, the ministers, the favourite eunuchs, the ladies of the court, and Eudoxia the empress herself, against whom the preacher thundered daily from the pulpit of St Sophia.