(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.
Thunderstorm
Definition:
(n.) A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 5.02am GMT 4.48am GMT A tweet from the Australian Financial Review’s political correspondent Phillip Coorey: Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) Thunderstorm brewing over Parl House.
(2) 2 December – Rocinha A pregnant woman has to be rescued from a landslide in the Trampolim neighbourhood of Rocinha after a thunderstorm hits our community.
(3) During the thunderstorms of the past week the roof has begun leaking.
(4) July and August failed to produce their usual thunderstorms and those that did occur brought little rainfall.
(5) I've long suspected a connection between my migraines and thunderstorms, as well as hot, bright weather; but that's nothing compared with Dawn Binks's experience of the links between weather and migraine.
(6) As before an August thunderstorm, the air is heavy with the coming transformation, the rain, the lightning, the release.
(7) The Environment Agency said people across central and eastern England should remain on alert for possible floods as heavy thunderstorms were forecast for many areas on Friday and Saturday.
(8) In most patients symptoms began at the time of sudden climatic changes associated with a thunderstorm.
(9) If this meets cooler air from the Atlantic, the warm air can be forced rapidly upwards to produce thunderstorms.
(10) Thunderstorms are forecast for Charlotte this week, which shouldn't be a problem Tuesday and Wednesday when the convention is being held indoors.
(11) The possibility of thunderstorms comes from very warm and humid air moving up from the Spanish plains to the UK.
(12) They brought the Stanley Cup into the building early in the third, and at the end of a mid-June steam press of a day in Boston, with thunderstorms rolling through, the ice began to drip and pool.
(13) a thunderstorm breaks out over the City of London November 20, 2013 12.30pm GMT Session ended with Goldman's dirty washing on display The session finished with committee chair Adrian Bailey asking Goldman Sachs's Richard Cormack about a legal case brought against Goldman in America, over its handling of an IPO.
(14) Bands of cloud, containing rain and thunderstorms, swirl into the center of the low, and extend over the British Isles.
(15) Other trends in severe storms, including the intensity and frequency of tornadoes, hail, and damaging thunderstorm winds, are uncertain and are being studied intensively.” • Precipitation: “ Average U.S. precipitation has increased since 1900, but some areas have had increases greater than the national average, and some areas have had decreases.
(16) Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had already arrived in Mecca when the massive red and white crane toppled over during a Friday thunderstorm.
(17) The country’s monarch, King Salman, has promised to find out what caused the construction crane to topple over during a thunderstorm.
(18) A thunderstorm erupts in Miami one hour, and coasts over Havana the next.
(19) There was a significant positive correlation between the time of attempted suicide and the weather parameters "stable upslide, labile upslide, fog, thunderstorm, warm air, upslide and weather drier than on the 2 preceding days".
(20) Although the request to go higher to avoid bad weather is not an unusual one, pilots are aware that flying over a thunderstorm will not necessarily mean clearing it: according to forecasters at Indonesia’s meteorology agency, dense storm clouds were detected up to 44,000ft when the plane was reported to have lost contact.