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Meanings of thunderbolt in English
Hardware interface.
Series of outdoor warning sirens manufactured by Federal Signal Corporation.
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Usage of thunderbolt in English
1
The declaration fell like a thunderbolt in the midst of the Council.
2
A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments.
3
He was the servant of the tempest, the guardian of the thunderbolt.
4
Once more on the Lech Tilly crossed the path of the thunderbolt.
5
The news of the disaster came like a thunderbolt upon the colonists.
6
But now the thunderbolt had fallen and his castle was in ruins.
7
The Descoings read nothing; she was struck down as by a thunderbolt.
8
This announcement fell like a thunderbolt in the assembly of fashionable idlers.
9
He harnessed the flame of a thunderbolt to fit in a candlestick.
10
The first thunderbolt was the sudden dissolution of Parliament by Lord Beaconsfield.
11
The words of the commissioner fell upon our ears like a thunderbolt.
12
This came like a thunderbolt to the worshippers of the old gods.
13
If a thunderbolt would fall, or the forest flare up in flame.
14
The commotion was as if a thunderbolt had descended among the elders.
15
Those who remain erect under the thunderbolt are prostrated by the flash.
16
A thunderbolt falling in their midst could not have been more effectual.
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Translations for thunderbolt
Portuguese
Catalan
Thunderbolt through the time
Thunderbolt across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common