Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: thundering
IPA transcription: [θ'ʌndɚɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thundering
    Meaning: sounding like thunder; "the thundering herd"
  • Synonyms: thundering
    Meaning: extraordinarily big or impressive; "a thundering success"; "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"
Usage examples
  • The hall rose, thundering.
  • The thundering footfalls of the pursuing horse were close in the rear.
  • While thus busily engaged I was startled by a thundering roar across the lake.
  • No! Suleiman-bin-Daoud must be dead, and what we heard and saw was the earth thundering and darkening at the news.'
  • She was not kept long in waiting, for ten minutes later the automobile, with Henriette in it, came thundering up the drive.
  • Then the train came thundering up, and the fair girl was hurried into it, Mr. Travilla, on one side, and her father on the other, effectually preventing any near approach to her person on the part of the baffled and disappointed fortune-hunter.
  • Lots of people that take it every day think it's only the train to the golf grounds, but the joke is that after it passes out of the city and the suburbs and the golf grounds, it turns itself little by little into the Mariposa train, thundering and pounding towards the north with hemlock sparks pouring out into the darkness from the funnel of it.
  • As Joe's buggy drove up, and while, after his usual thundering knock and pompous bustle at the door, the ex-Collector of Boggley Wollah laboured up stairs to the drawing-room, knowing glances were telegraphed between Osborne and Miss Sedley, and the pair, smiling archly, looked at Rebecca, who actually blushed as she bent her fair ringlets over her knitting.