The struggle seemed like forever but was only a matter of seconds, when the gun exploded with a deafening bang and the policeman hit the ground.

He was returning to his table when suddenly there was a deafening bang and the room filled with thick smoke.

Before the men at the controls could cut the throttle, the scream ended in a deafening bang as the runaway engine exploded.

Austin grinned and began to answer her when suddenly there was a deafening bang from the front of the room.

The spring tightened, the lid swung unstoppably up and slammed shut with a deafening bang.

Ben pulled Marie clear as the doors slammed open before him with a vicious, deafening bang.

There was a deafening bang, as if the colonel had thrown the telephone across the room, but the connection held.

At the same moment a deafening bang resounded, everything around was lit up by a blinding blue flash, and the light went off.

The gun went off again with a second deafening bang.

I remembered the flash, the deafening bang, Olive flying past me like a mannequin.