Example Sentences

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Huge amounts of water, littered with broken trees, debris and trash, were thundering down the usually serene rivers.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023

It came as we were thundering along the autoroute in the south of France.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2013

Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick's trucks were thundering up the newly opened Ledo-Burma Road, past banners reading "Welcome Honorable Truck Convoy," "Welcome Material Help."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pursuit planes and great transports were thundering from the west, over the same routes the destroying bombers had once followed.

From Time Magazine Archive

It wasn’t until Inej and Wylan were thundering over the trestles of the bridge that Nina could make out what they were yelling: “Get out of the way!”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo