How to Use thunderous in a Sentence

thunderous

adjective

• The audience responded with thunderous applause.
• The crowd was just 4,102, but the boos were thunderous.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2021
• The noise as fans rose to their feet and cheered was thunderous.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
• That was when Watson heard the noise—first the scrape, and then a thunderous boom.
  — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
• In a video of the speech, thunderous applause can be heard.
  — Jacob Henry, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2022
• Right when the crowd got to the third line of the song, a thunderous roar filled the air at Sandy Promenade.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2021
• People a block away from the scene said their homes shook from the thunderous crash.
  — Julie Watson, ajc, 12 Oct. 2021
• The room swelled with whoops and cheers and thunderous applause.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
• House gambles for a steal on the perimeter and takes it coast to coast for a thunderous jam.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• With thunderous praise, the group lets go of all its tribulations and thanks to the Creator across the 12 tracks.
  — Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• In the white-walled halls of a Florida art fair, a thunderous bam!
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• No surprise, the toast and Ryan both got a thunderous round of applause.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 6 June 2023
• Following the footage, Ford joined the rest of the cast on stage to thunderous applause.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 27 July 2024
• When one man knocked out the other, the crowd erupted in a thunderous roar.
  — Jan Ransom, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Dixon passed his rival at the 26-mile mark, the thunderous roar of the finish-line crowd pulling him home.
  — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 6 Aug. 2020
• At the end of the video, the two shared a wholesome hug to thunderous audience applause.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2022
• Owen Walsh ignited his team and the crowd with a thunderous slam.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 29 May 2022
• Every so often, a thunderous smack echoed from the grass in front of them, louder than the rest.
  — oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2023
• Gorgeously shot, the sound mix is thunderous & the cast all shines.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 July 2022
• The thunderous roar of stock car engines booming from the diamond in the desert aren’t echoes from the past, but rather the wind of change.
  — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
• Aurelien Tchouameni put France on the board first with a thunderous strike in the 17th minute.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
• The boos from the Yankees fans are thunderous, and the cheers are almost as loud when Lindor lets a strike go past.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• The drive home would be silent, too, but the refrain playing through my head was thunderous.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 18 May 2021
• Wiggins, the first screener in the series, then rolled to the rim and threw down a thunderous alley-oop off Green’s pass.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2022
• Son of the Century is the tale of how democracy can die to the sound of such thunderous applause.
  — Anna Momigliano, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2022
• Full-throated cries bounced around the space with thunderous force.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• A second later, the 23 children jolted from one side to the other at the sound of a thunderous crash.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• Nnadozie had a thunderous slam in the first quarter over Calvert Hall’s Jonah Biggers to the elation of the crowd.
  — Kyle J. Andrews, baltimoresun.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• At night, lightning scarred the sky, jagged answers to the crack of thunderous questions.
  — Jill Talbot, Longreads, 26 June 2021
• Harris made a surprise trip to the lectern earlier in the evening, speaking briefly and garnering thunderous applause.
  — Politifact Staff, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024