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thunderbolt

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And it hit me like a thunderbolt . ▪ Dad clapped his hands over his cheeks when the thunderbolt struck. ▪ His public outbursts of temper and his oratorical thunderbolts of defiance were likewise psychological reinforcements for ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Thunderbolt was a wooden roller coaster located at Coney Island in Brooklyn , New York . It operated from 1925 until 1982 and was finally demolished in autumn 2000. It was designed by John Miller . In June 2013, it was announced that a new steel roller ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn: bolt , bolt of lightning ] a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a bombshell" [syn: bombshell , thunderclap ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder. 2 (context figuratively English) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected. 3 Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. 4 (context soccer English) ...

Usage examples of thunderbolt.

They no sooner appeared in the sky before they were attacked by a horde of the alated and the ships went up in smoke as soon as the thunderbolts reached their vital parts.

The true alchemist would never have lost his dignity by creating butterflies, birds and thunderbolts .

At the Bombay Bhel, they barely had time to eat their aloo tikki and drink their Thunderbolt beer.

Synagogue of Satan to hurl thunderbolts against the Holy Apostolic See, and diabolically to decree the subjection of the Pope to the Council, the confiscation of his annates, dearer to him than the apple of his eye, and finally his own deposition.

There we intended to casually engage happy-hour patrons in discussion of Thunderbolt, Perry, the proposed buyout, and even Tiger Defense in a last-ditch attempt to track down Man of the People and to uncover any possible clues as to what, precisely, was so dirty about this deal.

Perry launched the Thunderbolt buyout, they had to scrap their careful plans.

I could have used a good associate, because I was soon busy at work again, helping Frank Kryzluk and the Thunderbolt board of directors put together an employee buyout of the company.

I tell you with absolute certainty there are millions of carats of diamonds lying in the crotch of Thunderbolt and Suicide.

His lips were pursed up and he was bending over almost to the surface of the water, when something dashed past him, and an instant later something else struck him like a thunderbolt from behind, and drove him headforemost into the brook!

But, ten minutes after the smiling Lathi Tal had vanished, like a thunderbolt upon the heads of Van Houten and Groot descended the purport of a document which that confidential person must have accidentally dropped in their shop.

The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.

Bettik, Rachel and Theo, George and Jigme, Kuku and Kay, Chim Din and Gyalo Thondup, Lhomo and Labsang, Kim Byung-Soon and Viki Groselj, Kenshiro and Haruyuki, Master Abbot Kempo Ngha Wang Tashi and his master, the young Dalai Lama, Voytek Majer and Janusz Kurtyka, brooding Rimsi Kyipup and grinning Changchi Kenchung, the Dorje Phamo the Thunderbolt Sow and Carl Linga William Eiheji.

Each akshohini of the army had its own vajra squad, named after the mythic thunderbolt of Lord Indra, ruler of the devas.

Such deities were the Thracian Bendis, whose manifestation was heralded by the howling of her fierce black hounds, and Hecate the terrible QUeen of the realm of ghosts, as Euripides calls her, and the vampire Mormo and the dark Summanus who at midnight hurled loud thunderbolts and launched the deadly levin through the starless sky.

All eyes were turned for a moment towards the procureur, who sat as motionless as though a thunderbolt had changed him into a corpse.