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    thunderclap


    1. Occasionally lightning flares erupted in the distant sky, followed immediately with an earth-shaking thunderclap


    2. But a thunderclap obliterated Homer’s words


    3. Another thunderclap and Brokin shuddered when the taproot moved back and forth, as the tree's old trunk was battered by the force of the storm raging above


    4. The booming sound of a shotgun echoed like thunderclap around the small bar; mayhem ensued


    5. There was a thunderclap and then the control room shuddered


    6. The ground trembled as the monstrous thunderclap blasted its way past him


    7. As he tried to settle his horse, a thunderclap of a sound rolled across the plain


    8. The fire snaked out from the small stones like a living form, moving in great circles around the room, then, with a blinding flash of light and a deafening thunderclap a savage blast of wind ripped through the room and forced the men back to the walls fighting for their footing, the portal opened and closed within a split second


    9. With the next thunderclap, my mom woke


    10. heavens, and moments later, a loud thunderclap followed

    11. And the globe burst with a noise like a thunderclap, raining fiery shards on the black marble, and the gold pomegranates, as if released from captivity, shot upward toward the lofty roof and were gone


    12. His slitted eyes were aglow with morbid anticipation as his erstwhile tormentor pushed his hand under his nose and with the admonition, ―Squeeze,‖ pressed against the two fingers fracturing the ampule with a tiny tinkling sound that would have been a thunderclap to Gypsy Jack Pappadoupoulis—had he known


    13. A long thunderclap rolled from the horizon


    14. A severe thunderclap jolted him out of his drowsy state


    15. A piece of wood in the fire breaks with a thunderclap, and the villagers gasp


    16. The usual thunderclap was replaced instead by a sickening snap as Joachim’s leg gave way and he collapsed on the ground


    17. A roar let loose that had even the loudest thunderclap beat in terms of intimidation


    18. Now his mother's letter had burst on him like a thunderclap


    19. It fell with nightmare slowness through the air and hit the water with a thunderclap


    20. The rain started to drive in at the cue of the thunderclap, and the women scuttled away for cover, screaming, the clickety-clack of their shoes echoing along the concrete of the pathway

    21. This was like a thunderclap


    22. There was a thin pop followed by a deep, reverberating thunderclap, and the tar man flared out of existence


    23. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Caesar, his conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, at Tilsit he taught Emperors


    24. The lawyer stopped, folded the paper, and stood, eyes shut, waiting for the thunderclap that would follow the lightning bolt


    25. The silence came like a thunderclap


    26. But Nastasia’s communication struck him with the force of a thunderclap


    27. Then came the thunderclap


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    Synonyms for "thunderclap"

    bombshell thunderbolt thunderclap thundering blast blare roar explosion boom

    "thunderclap" definitions

    a single sharp crash of thunder


    a shocking surprise