'distant thunder' is an entirely correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a sound which is far away. For example, "We heard the distant thunder of the approaching storm."
Only occasionally can the visitor make out the rumble of distant thunder.
Characteristically, the elegiac, transparent tone of Mr. Savall's performances evokes candlelight, contemplation, distant thunder.
Amid the regular distant thunder of artillery strikes, insurgent tactics are starting to bite.
Climate change is background noise, the slow roll of distant thunder.
The stampede of feet echoes like distant thunder, pierced with the incessant shrill of the phones.
Death, observed WH Auden, is like the rumble of distant thunder at a picnic.
Her new Copycat suite opened the night, a typically slow-waltzing framework for Sheppard's tremulously piping long tones, distant-thunder rumbles, and contented purrs on tenor sax.
Details like this - and "Distant Thunder" has too many of them -are distinctly unhelpful.
The New Yorker, November 10, 1975 P. 169 Review of this director's film "Distant Thunder".
By Pauline Kael The New Yorker, November 10 , 1975P. 169 Review of this director's film "Distant Thunder".
Fate works overtime developing the coincidences that shape "Distant Thunder," a film that reunites a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran with his long-lost son, now 18.
