They reported only the cracklings of the distant storm.

His voice was like low thunder from a distant storm.

It might, he thought, be the result of a distant storm.

It seemed to shiver through the ancient walls, rising and falling like a distant storm.

In one work, for example, swashes of black and gray look like a distant storm over the desert.

She was watching the flash of a distant storm.

Beyond they rose again, marching into the mainland toward a distant storm.

The traffic jams and empty stores were getting to them in ways that news reports of distant storms had not.

It sounded like the hollow rumbling of a distant storm.

He was hardly the only local businessman to take a financial bath from the distant storm.