Read full poem →sterile,
By the thundering reef and the low sea-wall and the channel of
years,
Dictionary Entry
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
In a Sentence
“It thundered continuously.”
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “thundering”
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Read full poem →From thence to honour thee, I will not seek
For names: but call forth thundering Eschylus,
Euripides, and Sophocles to us,
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →From thence to honour thee I would not seek
For names; but call forth thundering Aeschylus,
Euripides, and Sophocles to us,
Read full poem →With a soъth-wйsterly wнnd blъstering, with a tide rolls reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen
Ъnderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
Read full poem →And hear above me on the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.
Read full poem →Then he left the chamber,
Thundering through the doorway,
Loud his steps resounded
Read full poem →(Such now, methought, it was), the river of Life,
Loud thundering, bore us by; swift, swift it foam'd,
Black under cliffs it raced, round headlands shone.
Read full poem →While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Read full poem →For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around,
Read full poem →Teach me more clearly of Thy life and love
Than terrors of red flame and thundering.
The hillside vines dear memories of Thee bring: