Converse of object

• rumble: I spoke too soon, as I'm writing this the heaven's have opened and there's some rumbling thunder and sheet lightening.

• steal: The Film Festival, sneakily stealing the thunder of its London counterpart, with premieres of the best movies from around the world.

• hear: Too often they had heard the thunder of a mine, caught in the sweeps, explode under a trawlers counter.

• roll: Some sound like rolling thunder, some just like loud crack with no basses, like large tree falling down.

Converse of subject

• accompany: An approaching electrical storm is normally accompanied by thunder, heavy rain, extra static in the air.

Adjective modifier

• distant: He can hear the roar of a mob outside, hear the distant thunder of an explosion.

• rolling: Other excerpts are more unexpected, with Stephen Cummings sounding timeless on the shimmering rolling thunder of All For Love.

• loud: From the loud thunder of the Spitfire crashing, to the superb cameo of two air-raid wardens rescuing beer.

• heavy: Another storm cell approached at 0925 GMT with 4 local flashes of lightning and heavy thunder before it moved off.

Modifies a noun

• storm: We managed to miss the thunder storm, only getting a very brief shower.

• clap: A sudden thunder clap cuts through our jollity like the crack of a whip.

• rumble: Thunder thunder rumble and roar, close the windows and lock the door.

• cloud: A thunder cloud passing over, caused the leaf gold to strike the sides of the glass very quick at each flash of lightening.

• bolt: These are darned hard to come by now and this one is a little thunder bolt of joy!

• god: The huge thunder god, Thor, always carried his hammer with him.

Modifying Another Word

• forth: His voice thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• along: The reporter waxed lyrical; " At morning and evening you may hear and see train wagons thundering along through these handsome sheds.

Preposition: of

• hoof: Suddenly, out of the silence, she heard the thunder of distant hoof beats coming toward her.

• applause: There were, says Shaw, ' thunders of applause ' .

• gun: The first act opened with the thunder of the guns and the blood of November, 1917, when the Revolution broke out.