Sentence examples for roll of thunder from inspiring English sources

The text is the long roll of thunder that follows".

A drum roll of thunder could be heard in the distance.

"The way Joyce conceived it, it should sound like a roll of thunder," Mr. Gross said.

Brahms's youthful, tumultuous concerto, symphonic in scope, opens with a dramatic roll of thunder from the timpani.

The book I've chosen is Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, by the American author Mildred D Taylor, published in 1976.

When, finally, I stumbled into the courtyard of Hongu Taisha that evening I was greeted by a deep roll of thunder so sonically low it seemed more imagined then real.

Lightning heats the air it passes through so intensely and quickly that shock waves are produced; these shock waves are heard as claps and rolls of thunder.

Birds were not singing, exactly, as they hopped in and out of the ruins of Heather Lane; the sound was more of an anxious muttering to the accompaniment of the spattering rain and bass-drum rolls of thunder.

Amid at times torrential rain and intermittent rolls of thunder on The Mall, there was more than a hint of Cooke's gold medal in the Olympic road race on the Great Wall of China in 2008, in the weather at least.

Loud rolls of thunder keep coming.

The West is the land of the living skies, which is less a poetic flourish than a statement of fact to anyone who knows the crack and roll of Prairie thunder.