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Example sentences for "thundered"

Lexicographically close words:
thunderbolt; thunderbolts; thunderclap; thundercloud; thunderclouds; thundereth; thunderheads; thundering; thunderings; thunderous
  1. From Riga to the Rumanian border," says one of these eye-witnesses, "thundered the crashing of guns.

  2. Continuously the guns on both sides thundered against each other, with a fairly well-maintained intensity which, however, would increase from time to time in some places.

  3. Without cessation the guns thundered on both sides on these three days on the Doberdo Plateau, along the Fella and Ploecken sectors, in the Dolomites and to the east of Selz.

  4. No people ever did, or ever could, feel the power of Christian principle growing up like an inspiration through the national manhood, until the worth of it had been thundered on the battle-field.

  5. It is not true," thundered Mr. Wilberfloss, hopping to avoid a perambulating cat.

  6. Only one person holds the thunder--and I shall be thundered at; I shall not be reasoned with--it is impossible.

  7. It's Tommy's girl," thundered Hamp Sharkey, from the top of his jingling ladders.

  8. They were scarcely seated at the table, when her husband came and thundered at the door, which he was much surprised to find closed.

  9. You may guess that the squire and the lady were both astonished when the knight thundered on the door--which was locked--with his staff.

  10. Samuel, showing that, when God gave Israel a king, it thundered and rained.

  11. Ramsden thundered against vaccination in a sermon before the University of Cambridge, mingling texts of Scripture with calumnies against Jenner; but Plumptre and the Rev.

  12. Henry Smith, a noted preacher, thundered from the pulpit of St. Clement Danes in London against "the evasions of Scripture" which permitted men to lend money on interest at all.

  13. They left their place in the left of the Persian line and thundered down upon the P[oe]onians like an avalanche.

  14. Chares cried in a mighty voice, as they thundered down upon the obstinate group.

  15. Alexander shouted, and the Agema thundered up the slope against the disordered barbarians.

  16. Behind her thundered prince and satrap, each intent upon saving himself at whatever cost.

  17. Beyond and still farther out, something which seemed the fragments of a lifeboat tossed up and down where the waves thundered and gleamed at the edge of the floe.

  18. You shall soon see that, you old canting hypocrite," thundered forth Sir Archibald Kennedy in his fiercest tones.

  19. The whole line thundered with the incessant volleys of musketry, and the shot and shell of the artillery shrieked and howled like spirits of evil.

  20. The confederates fled precipitately down the west side of the mountain, and our flags were waved in triumph from the heights which had so lately thundered destruction upon us.

  21. On and on the burning train thundered like a frightful meteor.

  22. Although the infantry on both sides became comparatively quiet, artillery thundered from every eminence in possession of our own or the enemy's batteries.

  23. Then gradually the battle rolled on to the right; and while it thundered there, our forces on the left remained comparatively quiet.

  24. The Torrent thundered down the dell With unabating haste; 1815.

  25. At the one spot where this torrent tossed its white mane highest, and thundered loudest, and lashed the big boulders fiercest, the canton had done itself the honor to build the flimsiest wooden bridge that exists in the world.

  26. When ecclesiastical censures were thundered against the garrison, he made its chaplain return a pop-gun excommunication of the Pontiff.

  27. Breaking off all negotiations, he thundered censures against Chaumont and the Duke of Ferrara, and ordered his now ample army to assume offensive operations.

  28. Flemming made no reply, for he was thinking of the days, when from that old pulpit, some bold reformer thundered down the first tidings of a new doctrine, and the roof echoed with the grand old hymns of Martin Luther.

  29. The Canonicus, standing close behind me, thundered out the bass over my head, as if he were singing with bass-drums and trumpet obbligato in a cathedral.

  30. The waves arose mountain high, the seas lashed and thundered along the shores.

  31. Your hearts are black and bloodless,' thundered the Great Tyee, turning upon them fiercely, 'and your eyes are blinded.

  32. A partridge thundered up at our feet and rocketed to earth again beyond the protecting pines.

  33. It was the City of the Dead; only Vesuvius thundered forth his everlasting hymn, each separate verse of which is called by men an eruption.

  34. Then he thundered to Giacomo to marshal his men, and he called upon those of his courtiers who were knights to put on their armour that they might support him.

  35. They thundered on the planks of the drawbridge and clattered on the stones of the courtyard.

  36. Instantly we brought up in unconcerned obedience, and they thundered alongside with cries of triumph at having run their prey to earth.

  37. Turning, I fled for dear life, and after me thundered the elephant.

  38. Then they broke, and, stricken with utter panic, Wambe's soldiers streamed away a scattered crowd of fugitives, while after them thundered the footfall of the victors.

  39. He was the bard, the seer, the prophet, who thundered out of a cloud and instructed the nation.

  40. Hoofs thundered behind him, the Cimmeroon caught him, His man cursing Thankful and the sire who wrought him.

  41. Then a whirl of urged horses thundered up, whipped and blown, Soyland, Peterkinooks, and Red Ember the roan.

  42. No wonder that the place was named Bochim ('Weepers'), when such stern words were thundered forth.

  43. Dick saw a flash of water and then the whole troop thundered into the creek, almost without slackened rein.

  44. A few moments of rest were permitted Dick and his comrades, although the mighty battle wheeled and thundered all about them.

  45. Far off, both to east and west, the cannon thundered in the darkness, but with the drinkers it was a peaceful interlude of a quarter of an hour.

  46. The inner ring along its front of miles thundered incessantly on the outer ring, and repelled every attempt to crush it.

  47. Through the open windows came the scent of pine and dewy fields, the murmur of the distant stream as it thundered and rippled its never-ending triumphal march to the sea, the occasional soft lowing of cattle.

  48. Which one of the cars carried the treasure, Jerry wondered, just as a rough Irish voice thundered in her ear: "For the love of Mike!

  49. Debates as to the Recall of Caesar and Pompeius Curio had in the first months of his tribunate of the people played the independent republican, and had as such thundered both against Caesar and against Pompeius.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thundered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.