What is "thunderous"

Usage examples of "thunderous".

While he was face down at the floor, there erupted from Bors a thunderous fart.

As the two Masters, followed by the assistant, strode toward the circuit-exit to meet him, a ball of flame erupted from one of the grilled fenestrations of the wizard-hall, accompanied by a thunderous roar.

They motioned to their captors to drink too, and as Bertha Kircher and Smith-Oldwick, lying prone upon the ground drank from the clear, cool water of the rivulet, they were suddenly startled by the thunderous roar of a lion a short distance ahead of them.

When Rabin extended his hand, the crowd let out an audible gasp, followed by thunderous applause, as they completed the kissless handshake.

Thunderous rapid blasts of psychokinetic power hurled simultaneously by the combatants collide and rumble across the black mounds of the moors.

She just went about her business, brushing the cartridges onto the floor of the turret, loading and reloading with the thunderous racket of the Puckle gun in her ears, ignoring everything else around her.

Cries of pococurante and drum of quickstep waned, overwhelmed by a thunderous fusillade, so loud that I guessed the rest of the tour would be delivered with gestures.

And an even more thunderous roar will emerge from the giant Russian dish at Ratan when it, too, starts radar sounding.

In less than a minute, the thunderous song of the razee signaled his departure from Ortel, and later, when his task force hit hyperpoint, it did so with such casual disregard for the shape of the continuum that the Pretender could not have failed to detect the coming of Nemesis.

The cheering was thunderous, and though Lipton offered immediately to resail the race, neither the New York Yacht Club nor anyone else on either side of the Atlantic would consider it.

A tremendous crashing filled that light, a thunderous sound that shook the floor beneath me, and thrummed along my bones like the very walls of the sithen had convulsed with us.

In the thunderous shaking of canvas hands gazed aft for orders: Somers stared, bemused.

But then, one dawn, it seemed the auguries might be deceiving, for the British suddenly unmasked four of their newly made breaching batteries and the great guns crashed back on their trails and the intricate network of trenches and earthworks was shrouded by the giant gusts of smoke that were belched out with every thunderous recoil.

Marius had plenty of time to absorb these repellent antics as he stood there waiting for someone to answer his thunderous knock.

Dipsas coughed as she chanted, but her cracked voice and the thunderous antiphony from below continued for so long as the sulphur burned.