What's the difference between resounding and thundering?

Resounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resound

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
  • (2) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
  • (3) Promising to tear up bailout agreements that had created a “humanitarian crisis”, Syriza surged to a resounding victory .
  • (4) 10.03am: This from Hiraldo_TIFC, one of the Guardian Fans' Network members: Jürgen Klinsmann speaking about the process of Germany's revival in the last 6 years , worthwhile read #worldcup #GER 10.13am: Below the line, ChuckSchick asks: "Would a resounding German World Cup win, coupled with an impressive CL run by Bayern lead to greater Bundesliga coverage on UK television?
  • (5) This case resoundingly illustrates that the strength of our Program is not limited only to testing.
  • (6) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
  • (7) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
  • (8) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
  • (9) At the end of the night guests voted a resounding 'yes' to supporting the campaign.
  • (10) Feed-in tariffs for solar panels – where the government pays people for creating their own renewable energy – have been a resounding success, but the government now intends to cut them back, a decision that has led to legal action from solar companies.
  • (11) The almost certain resounding no to the alternative vote shows clearly that the voters think otherwise.
  • (12) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (13) Our current answer is not a resounding “No!” It’s a slightly interrogatively inflected “Probably not”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.
  • (14) But his resounding 4,091 majority delivered David Cameron a key marginal.
  • (15) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (16) The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist ” is itself a resounding testament to our concern for inequality.
  • (17) Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney's resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer".
  • (18) Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks to help fire Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña .
  • (19) There is much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election.
  • (20) As the Tory cheers resounded at the end of the budget speech, standing at the back was the diminished figure of Boris Johnson, wearing the look of a man that knew his future rival had set the bar somewhere he has never been in politics.

Thundering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thunder
  • (a.) Emitting thunder.
  • (a.) Very great; -- often adverbially.
  • (n.) Thunder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Thunder now have a 2-0 series lead but can't afford to let their guard down considering they're about to face a wounded and fired up Kobe Bryant at home.
  • (2) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
  • (3) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (4) Last year, Feinstein thundered against the NSA monitoring Merkel, even as the senator remained a staunch supporter of most other NSA surveillance, to include its domestic operations.
  • (5) The Clippers rallied at the end of the period, outscoring the Thunder 8-0 to take a 90-86 lead.
  • (6) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
  • (7) The Thunder, who seemed in perfect position to take a commanding 3-1 series lead until the game's final minutes instead find themselves tied 2-2 with an incredibly talented Clippers team that has luck, momentum and even public sentiment on its side.
  • (8) Washington always throws its weight around with willing sidekicks like Australia, but the convention is to do it in private, not thunder unpredictably in public about what you might or might not do, and issue contradictory statements about bilateral agreements agreed between leaders.
  • (9) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
  • (10) Their massed voices roll like thunder across the open-sided, scaffold-roofed stadium.
  • (11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
  • (12) 2.28am GMT 15 mins Saborio seeks to redeem himself with a spot of helpful cheating, completely failing to take his distance at a Galaxy free-kick and somehow getting away with it - blocking the set piece near half-way and launching an RSL counter that concludes with Kyle Beckerman thundering a shot towards goal from the edge of the box.
  • (13) Durant’s Thunder team-mate Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers also withdrew because of health concerns.
  • (14) The Warriors and Thunder gave us the best game of the year There's usually no better way to ensure a game won't be memorable than to hype it up as a potential playoff preview.
  • (15) In the three weeks since McCrory, a Republican, signed the legislation, a battery of prominent businesses and celebrities have issued thundering denunciations.
  • (16) The Xbox One has beat-em-'up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder.
  • (17) We have seen a complete failure on the part of the Turnbull government to properly negotiate resettlement arrangements with PNG and to negotiate resettlement arrangements with third country options,” he thundered.
  • (18) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
  • (19) A thunderous mix of vuvuzelas and roars from the crowd greeted the former South African president as he was driven across the pitch in a golf cart with his wife Graça Machel.
  • (20) The product of energy flux and efficiency implies the unexpected conclusion that shocks occurring on atmospheric entry of cometary meteors and micrometeorites and from thunder may have been the principal energy sources for pre-biological organic synthesis on the primitive earth.