(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.
Thunderous
Definition:
(a.) Producing thunder.
(a.) Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous.
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.