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
In the days of Strauss waltzes and the musical "grand manner." every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thou thunderer that guard'st Rome's mighty walls, built on Tarpeian rock!
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
