1.   In the distance, another thunder clap rolled, this one more muffled than its predecessors.

2.   The door slammed behind them like a thunder clap.

3.   There was a thunder clap followed instantly by lightning.

4.   She broke off as a blue lightning flash coincided with an ear-shattering thunder clap and released a fresh torrent of rain.

5.   Still, bear markets usually end with a thunder clap, on a day of panic selling and investor exhaustion.

6.   There was no thunder clap when Newt Gingrich recently vacated the House speakership.

7.   Some explosions thudded in the middle distance, some broke with a sharp thunder clap much nearer.