(mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird

Usage examples of thunderbird.

The Sahara, the landmark, the Americana and the ominous Thunderbird -- a cluster of grey rectangles in the distance, rising out of the cactus.

Hinckley is now a spare whitewall tire on the Thunderbird of my dreams.

The two-lane road and its traffic wound on for a mile or so, flanked by rustic signs indicating the way to Pima Point, the Tusayan Museum, and widely scattered tourist lodges called Yavapai, Maswik, Thunderbird, and Kachina.

Shadow pulled down some books and sat in the window seat: In several minutes he had learned that thunderbirds were mythical gigantic birds who lived on mountaintops, who brought the lightning and who flapped their wings to make the thunder.

There were some tribes, he read, who believed that the thunderbirds had made the world.

He stood at last on the top of the spire, the great birds, the thunderbirds, circling him slowly, navigating the gusts of the storm with tiny flicks of their wings.

Then had come such mighty cracks and rumbles from the skies that he had seen the great black beating wings of the Thunderbirds, and the white fire from their eyes had sizzled to the ground, almost blinding him.

A car was parked well to one side - a black Thunderbird, he noted, as tie swept the Audi round to face back towards the driveway, and came to a halt directly in front of the house entrance.

Though angry at Mary Louise Schultz for dropping him, to resume dating suave Smoke who now drove a sexy red Thunderbird, Art Lutz continued to dream helplessly of her and to stare after her, at school, with such an expression of dopey longing, his own buddies hadn't the heart to laugh at him.

Originally, the Recon Marines were to move in close to the U Feng perimeter and serve as forward observers, first for the Hornets designated as Chickenhawk, then for the Intruders designated Thunderbird.

About the only break we got this time was an earwitness who claims he heard some noise, but he's a wino who was up to his eyebrows in Mogen David and Thunderbird.

The Maserati and the Bentley seemed to be tangled broadside on across the road, and the Thunderbird was flying through the air.

At the last moment (as end-time closed in on him) he changed his mind on a decisive issue and decided to drink the reds down with a connoisseur wine instead of Ripple or Thunderbird, so he set off on one last drive, over to Trader Joe's, which specialized in fine wines, and bought a bottle of 1971 Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon, which set him back almost thirty dollars--all he had.

The Gallo wine company noticed this and began marketing Thunderbird, a white port-citric acid mixture.

When the Thunderbirds performed in the old days, Huntertwould do a solo spot, and it was always the crowd pleaser.