(n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
(n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
(n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
(n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along But Swartz's death came like a thunderbolt in cyberspace, because this insanely talented, idealistic, complex, diminutive lad was a poster boy for everything that we value about the networked world.
(2) There was nothing Reddy could do about super-sub Kwame Yeboah’s 89th minute thunderbolt , which keeps Brisbane at the top of the table.
(3) It has a taste so sweet that one is never enough and a kick as hard as a Roberto Carlos thunderbolt.
(4) TL: Tony leaped out of his P-47 Thunderbolt feeling so great about being alive.
(5) During the 17 years preceding March 1985, 140 patients sustained lightning injuries caused by 44 thunderbolts.
(6) 1.43pm BST Marin Cilic remains one of the great nearly men of men's tennis, a former top-10 contender, complete with a thunderbolt serve and a powerful net game.
(7) Faster Flash storage - up to 60% faster; wireless 802.11ac; Thunderbolt 2 connector.
(8) Less reliable predictions from analysts and the supply chain have claimed a cover with built in-keyboard is in the works – hence the invite line about 'we've got it covered' – along with a new Thunderbolt external screen.
(9) Samir Nasri puts Man City in the lead with an old-fashioned thunderbolt.
(10) Murray saved break point with a stunning cross-court winner in the sixth game of the fourth set, held, and then served out the match to love with an away-swinging thunderbolt down the T. “The way I feel today compared with how I felt after losing in four sets last year [to Roger Federer in the quarter-finals], I could barely move at the end of the match because I was so sore and stiff.
(11) Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe review Read more The case has sparked huge controversy.
(12) Kenny said the tapes, disclosed by the Irish Independent this week, were a "thunderbolt", adding that they showed "the contempt and the arrogance and the insolence" of senior people in the bank towards everyone.
(13) Describing the revelations as a "thunderbolt", the prime minister said: "This has damaged our reputation."
(14) "I thought: 'Here were go again' but this time he kept it down and it was a thunderbolt.
(15) Radja Nainggolan’s 30-yard thunderbolt felt as though it might be the prompt for a rout.
(16) A god of absence, of null, of nothingness – a god with no specific given name: somehow this seems more frightening than all the angry thunderbolt-throwers and purveyors of fire-and-brimstone put together.
(17) Poverty is still shot out indiscriminately but deliberately, like thunderbolts from the palm of Thor.
(18) Bale put the icing on the cake with a thunderbolt from outside the penalty area on the left that went in off the far post.
(19) "These tapes from Anglo are actually a thunderbolt, but they shine a light on a very dark period of Ireland's recent past that we want to get away from."
(20) Out of a clear blue English sky came a thunderbolt to eclipse anything the Rugby World Cup has ever seen.
Thunderclap
Definition:
(n.) A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It launched Waldman into the public eye with a thunderclap she says was horrifying.
(2) Thunderclap headache described as severe, unusual and sudden was the main symptom in every case though the higher frequency of focal of diffuse signs in groups with a correct diagnosis attracted more careful attention in referral and diagnostic-therapeutic management.
(3) Recently in the literature a new name has been coined for them--thunderclap headaches, and some authors regard them as a sign of minor intracranial haemorrhage.
(4) Over the weekend men could be seen puffing on water pipes in a palm-shaded park, children playing between the flowerbeds and couples chatting demurely on benches as the unmistakable thunderclap of high explosive rippled through the air a few miles away – smoke rising between the minarets of a nearby Ottoman-era mosque.
(5) Most patients with a minor leak complain of a thunderclap type headache, which is usually located in the occipital area, or which seem to involve the whole brain.
(6) In the case of the 1960s, their bafflement would be total: imagine the fan from 1960 – with his Brylcreem, his Tommy Steele albums and his suspicion that trad-jazz might be the future of pop – gawping incredulously at the sight of Thunderclap Newman and Jimi Hendrix.
(7) Headache episodes with the thunderclap profile may require angiography for diagnosis even if the cerebrospinal fluid is bloodless.
(8) In the UK, the protest was launched at 11:30 with a thunderclap , a mass call on social media for wider opposition to spying.
(9) Estimates produced few thunderclaps on Monday but it emerged that the health department had only found out about the budget's big surprise – the multi-billion medical research fund bankrolled by copayments – very late in the process.
(10) None went on to have an unequivocal subarachnoid haemorrhage, and we conclude that angiography cannot be justified in patients with this type of "thunderclap headache".
(11) He is clearly the odd one out, the summer breeze among the rhetorical thunderclaps and bolts of lightning.
(12) Then, on 4 June, it plans a “thunderclap” on social media to tell young people that they have just three days left to register and influence their futures.
(13) Johnson replied: “I’m sure that your words will have broken like a thunderclap over Brussels and they will pay attention to what you have said.