thunderclap• Time comes and goes like a thunderclap and there is no getting it back.• It sounds like a thunderclap being forced through a fuzzpedal.• Another thunderclapexplodedabove, ringing their ears.• And then a sound, as if she had been standing next to a hugethunderclap.• Like thunderclaps, echoing over and over.• The grimyblots grew closer and bigger, suddenthunderclaps made visible, and hurled the little planes from side to side.• The others had spun round, and the short sticks they were holding had belchedterrifyingthunderclaps and flashes of brightflame.• It was still light when the thunderclap of the passage of one of the Simonova's lifeboats over his head woke him.