THUNDERSTORM in a Sentence

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For THUNDERSTORM, below is one of 14 sentences:
The air is slightly muggy from the thunderstorm that passed over at lunch, dark and loud without shedding a drop.

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 Meanings and Examples of THUNDERSTORM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thunderstorm
 n.  storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning
Classic Sentence:
1  They were in the hut, and there was a thunderstorm.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  "Thank you," said Wildeve, with dry resentment, his face as gloomy as a thunderstorm.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
3  Every winder in church rattled as if 'twere a thunderstorm.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
4  As I did so the shafts of the sun smote through the thunderstorm.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
5  The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct, shining with the wet of the thunderstorm, and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
6  One night he was caught by a thunderstorm, and he sought shelter in a little house just outside of a town.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  To Jurgis the Herr Dr. Schliemann assumed the proportions of a thunderstorm or an earthquake.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
8  Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle's Story
9  When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  In thunderstorms, we raised a tall rod of iron by the side of our hole, and we watched it from below.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART THREE
Example Sentence:
1  The air is slightly muggy from the thunderstorm that passed over at lunch, dark and loud without shedding a drop.
2  We were now outside Thornfield gates, to bowl lightly along the smooth road to Millcote, where the dust was well laid by the thunderstorm.
3  We might stay in the siding until the thunderstorm is over; but it may keep on raining all night.
4  A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.