thunderer
- 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
Trud did not mention oil, but another Soviet thunderer did.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Olympian thunderer Jove went to his couch, where he lay before, when sweet sleep came upon him.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
