Example Sentences

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“We cannot allow the train of infection that is thundering through our country to continue at its current pace,” Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told a news conference.

From Reuters • Dec. 3, 2021

Her new novel, “God Help the Child,” is thundering off the press with 200,000 copies.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2015

The real danger is thundering through the birch behind you, unable to stop, unlikely to swerve.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2014

Two funds lure $835 million Now that investors are feeling decidedly bullish about high-tech stocks, Merrill Lynch, characteristically, is thundering to the head of the stampede.

From Time Magazine Archive

"After all, that passage is thundering good, you know," Harry Lessingham announced, as though arguing with himself, arguing himself out of that same invidious chill, an hour later.

From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John