What's the difference between thunderous and tumultuous?

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.

Tumultuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
  • (a.) Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
  • (a.) Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
  • (a.) Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds-HBOS at the end of a tumultuous month in the global markets following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank.
  • (2) In countries such as Sri Lanka, child survival and health for all by the year 2000 often seem to be impossible goals, given the tumultuous socioeconomic and political conditions.
  • (3) Macedonia’s decision to tighten its border with Greece, allowing only Syrians and Iraqis to pass through into the EU, has created tumultuous scenes along its border fence.
  • (4) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
  • (5) David Cameron began to form his first government comprised solely of Conservative cabinet members on Friday after being delivered an overall Commons majority by a tumultuous election.
  • (6) However, the case has now been transferred to pre-court.” Criticising the British government over its handling of his wife’s case, Ratcliffe suggested that the tumultuous politics surrounding the EU referendum had lessened interest in her fate.
  • (7) The latest exchanges set the stage for a tumultuous first session of prime minister's questions on Wednesday following the summer break, when the issue of Syria is certain to dominate.
  • (8) The announcement by Conservative party central office that Rowland would not be taking the post due to his "developing business interests" capped a tumultuous summer for the property developer who, soon after the Tories announced that he would take over as their treasurer, became the subject of a string of stories in the Daily Mail that sought to paint his business dealings and personal life in a controversial light.
  • (9) But Rolls is a sound business.” Rishton oversaw a tumultuous period for Rolls that included a string of profit warnings, the first fall in sales for a decade, and the Serious Fraud Office launching an investigation into corruption allegations.
  • (10) Hume has a reputation for restraint rather than excess, for steady endeavour rather than tumultuous creativity.
  • (11) The allegations come at the end of a tumultuous week.
  • (12) I’m delighted.” There were chunks of empty seats in the Hull end at Wembley but the noise inside the stadium was tumultuous, an indication of the stakes at hand.
  • (13) The tumultuous and often bitter EU referendum campaign has left the two rival camps – Remain and Leave – locked in a dramatic dead heat with just four days to go before the British people decide their European future.
  • (14) Prof Gillian Leng, the deputy chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), said that "for many young people on the cusp of adulthood, moving between health and social-care services can be a tumultuous and stressful time.
  • (15) I covered Berlusconi's first successful election, in 1994, after four tumultuous years as Rome correspondent, during which an entire political class had come under investigation and much of it under arrest – even the pillar of Italy's opaque establishment, the prime minister and Christian Democrat leader, Giulio Andreotti.
  • (16) This is a very difficult and tumultuous time for Somalis and Muslims in the US.” The crime of “material support” carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
  • (17) For councils as politically tumultuous as this north-west London borough, the idea that a political leader can provide stability and long-term direction is naive.
  • (18) Poland's recent past has been so much more tumultuous and tragic than ours.
  • (19) 9 November: A tumultuous day begins with an emergency meeting of the system’s governing board and Wolfe resigns.
  • (20) Evidence is presented here that an excess of OT in fetal blood over that found in maternal plasma was associated with hypertonic, irregular, tumultuous or prolonged labor and with mild to moderate fetal hypoxia and fetal distress peculiar to abnormal uterine contractions.