Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a thunderous manner; with thunder or a noise like thunder.
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- adverb In a
thunderous manner, very loudly.
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Examples
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Her ticket selling capacity is renowned as well, she is the only local club boxer to have the crowd chant her name thunderously on a regular basis.
Doghouse Boxing News 2009
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Her ticket selling capacity is renowned as well, she is the only local club boxer to have the crowd chant her name thunderously on a regular basis.
Doghouse Boxing News 2009
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The voice of an unseen stage-hand called thunderously to an invisible "Bill" to commere quick.
Jill the Reckless 1928
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As the rhythmic beating of taiko drums filled the air, the floats—each outfitted with a 13-foot-high wooden tower and a telephone-pole-sized log jutting out from the base—collided thunderously.
Japanese Town Reunites Around Festival Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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Otherwise we will continue to be white noise in a world inundated with thunderously alienating religious voices.
Rev. Emily C. Heath: Mainline Christianity's PR Problem Rev. Emily C. Heath 2011
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But a voice in her conscience would echo thunderously, Like hell you're going to give up, Birtukan.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Why, the thought often occurs, try the flashy route through midwicket when he can hit the ball so thunderously straight with less risk.
Kevin Pietersen falls to familiar weapon on return for Surrey 2011
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As I write this, the rain is pounding so thunderously on my tin roof that it drowns out all other sound, with the sole exception of a deep grumbly thunder.
Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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Let yourself fall upon the earth, thunderously, like rain.
Let me tell you about the smell of the rain. Jane Flett 2012
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Otherwise we will continue to be white noise in a world inundated with thunderously alienating religious voices.
Rev. Emily C. Heath: Mainline Christianity's PR Problem Rev. Emily C. Heath 2011
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