thunderstorm 
thunder·storm (-stôrm′)
noun
a storm accompanied by thunder and lightning
Preposition: with
- hail: A thunderstorm with large hail missed Stanley by a few miles.
- lightning: Tues 18th Woken 4 by huge massive enormous thunderstorm with lightning.
Modifies a noun
- outside: Otherwise, this is a rather grim building inside; and not surprising, given the small windows and the thunderstorm outside.
- engine: The Thunderbolt models also received the Thunderstorm engine to round out an impressive offering of 1998 models.
- activity: Shower and thunderstorm activity began to increase later on the 2nd.
Adjective modifier
- torrential: Took the bus back to Helsinki and arrived in a torrential thunderstorm.
- violent: There were some violent thunderstorms in the south on the 27th.
- severe: There were further severe thunderstorms across the south on the 9th.
- tropical: Most rain falls in the summer months with tropical thunderstorms being prevalent.
- heavy: The heavy thunderstorm went on well into the night.
- spectacular: Spectacular thunderstorm at about midnight, with torrential rain.
Converse of object
- brave: Marvel as they brave a thunderstorm for your listening pleasure, and laugh as they run out of things to say at the end.
- trigger: The high temperatures and humidity trigger spectacular thunderstorms during the evening.
- pass: The morning of 10 th thankfully brought more tranquil weather but a passing thunderstorm still threatened.
- develop: Friday 9th started off fine and sunny but thunderstorms soon developed across the region.
- experience: And the weather was perfect: in two weeks I experienced just one thunderstorm.
- follow: They did not, probably due to the fact that there are still many pools in the desert following the thunderstorms.
Noun used with modifier
Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Die Zeit hat inWirklichkeit keine Einschnitte, es gibt kein Gewitter oder Drommetenget o« n beim Beginn eines neuen Monats oder Jahres, und selbst bei dem eines neuen S a« kulums sind es nur wir Menschen, die schieÞen und l a« uten. Timehasno divisionstomark its passage, there isnevera thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
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