Thundering
['θʌnd(ə)rɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) extraordinarily big or impressive; 'a thundering success'; 'the thundering silence of what was left unsaid' .
(adj.) sounding like thunder; 'the thundering herd' .
Inputed by Heinrich--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thunder
(a.) Emitting thunder.
(a.) Very great; -- often adverbially.
(n.) Thunder.
Edited by Abraham
Examples
- Before another word could be said by anybody, a thundering knock at the street door startled us all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At midnight a number of them came thundering at our door, demanding more rum, of which we took no notice. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He heard the thundering and surging out of doors, and it seemed to him as if his late angry mood were going about trying to get at him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Their time is the day of vengeance; their signal, the word of the Lord of hosts, thundering with the voice of His excellency. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The thundering carriage-and-pair encountered were now likewise recalled, as well as that puzzling signal, the waved handkerchief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Hark to the thundering in the chimney, and the surging noise! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He wound up this vehement declaration by looking round upon us with a most agreeable smile and suddenly thundering, Ha, ha, ha! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All Stilbro' Moor, alight and aglow with bonfires, would not have stopped them, nor would Calder or Aire thundering in flood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She had stood under it to hear the train rumble thundering over the logs overhead. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At this very moment a thundering rap at the door was heard. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- With these words, spoken in an unusually high tone for him, the lawyer goes into his rooms and shuts the door with a thundering noise. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- After the first almost thundering exclamations of astonishment, which sufficiently warned Rosamond of what was coming, he was silent for some moments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- After we retired and were asleep a thundering knock on the door awakened us. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Out with it, you thundering old cur, out with it! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Talking thus, they went upstairs, and presently we heard him in his bedroom thundering Ha, ha, ha! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Wolfgang