thunder
noun
a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
are thundering
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present progressiveof thunder.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Two days later, Hubert Grosse and I are thundering over Patagonia in the back of his $1.2 million helicopter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today semis are thundering along new dirt roads, heavy bulldozers are digging trenches for pipelines, overhead power lines are crisscrossing the valley, and drilling rigs are going up like mushrooms after a spring rain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally are thundering along at 79 m.p.h., the top speed allowed this train.
From Time Magazine Archive
August 24th.—In both Houses of Congress they are thundering away at Gen. Winder’s Provost Marshal and his Plug Ugly alien policemen.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
Will the Germans dare to hold their thin communication lines till the guns of Entente warships are thundering off Odessa and Batum?
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
