thunder
noun
a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
have been thundering
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present perfect progressiveof thunder.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The roar of the wind now dominated every sound, so that it might have been thundering furiously, but we should not have heard it.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
They have been thundering for a month, and no one so much as hears them now.
From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France
The corps was but forty miles from Johnson, and in two days would have been thundering on his rear.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
There was silence where his guns ought to have been thundering, and Grant burned with silent anger.
From The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
