thunder
noun
a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
thunderer
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a word derived from
thunder.
Example Sentences
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“It was the saddest of ironies that Spiro Agnew, a thunderer for law and order, had to end his political career with the admission that he cheated on his taxes.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2018
The best teams in the world have a complementary blend of power, pace and agility across their back rows, and at least one gain-line thunderer in the second row.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012
Potter, more usually required to be a full-on post-Coltrane thunderer, plays it with the wraith-like delicacy of tenor romantic Lester Young.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2010
Last year, many a Fundamentalist reproached Dr. John Roach Straton, Fundamentalist thunderer, when he invited Uldine to his Manhattan temple to speak.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is Democritus the laughing philosopher, or Jupiter the thunderer; he arraigns vice, pats virtue on the shoulder, shouts for muscular Christianity, uncovers shams,—his personages are only names.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
