Sentence examples for thunder woke from inspiring English sources

A clap of thunder woke Mama.

Sound of thunder woke me from my nightmares.

My mom always told me stories of how even the smallest roll of thunder woke me up as a child.

"Rural Sports" by John Gay "The healthy huntsman, with the cheerful horn, / Summons the dogs, and greets the dappled morn; / The jocund thunder wakes the enliven'd hounds, / They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for sounds".

Then our weeping might be--just for a moment--thunder, waking us up moment by moment to our sane response, our tears, to the actual pain of the world.

"We were up at 0430 BST because of that horrendous thunder clap that woke everyone up.

The soaring concerto that I have secretly composed for most of my entire life and kept well hidden in the orchestra of my soul is the music that I will need you to hear like a clap of thunder that will wake up all the sleeping angels, causing them all, in a moment, to fly, like a billion butterflies in a dance of spontaneous joy.

I woke up in my bunk, water thundering over me.

I woke at 2 a.m. to what my sleep-fuzzy brain first identified as thunder.

Jill woke up on the morning of her 16th birthday to a loud crash of thunder.

But they woke up to find that Hawit and Juan Ángel Napout, the president of the South American confederation Conmebol, had been arrested and US and Swiss investigators had again stolen their thunder.