thunder
noun
a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
had thundered
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past perfectof thunder.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“You call yourself a doctor?” he had thundered.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2010
Boies, visibly spent, reminded them that they had thundered past expectations.
From Washington Post
Theodore Roosevelt had thundered to the country from this same editorial chair and, before him, Lyman Abbott and Henry Ward Beecher.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is Roger Lamy, in the flesh and standing before me," Roger's old boss had thundered tellingly to the captain of gendarmes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were the cannon that had thundered on the banks of the Rapidan and in the valley of the Shenandoah.
From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Homer Randall
