thunderer
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a word derived from
thunder.
thundernouna loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
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
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It gains its name of thunderer from the tremendous roaring of the shattered ice masses when they fall.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt