Researchers were waiting to record a rocket launch and pointed the camera at a distant thunderstorm.

Except for the cannon fire, it was rather like listening to a distant thunderstorm.

From the shadows there was a rumble like a distant thunderstorm.

It was like a musician listening to the rumble of a distant thunderstorm.

Suddenly, from her office window she saw lightning from a distant thunderstorm.

The second source was weaker noise from more distant thunderstorms.

A distant thunderstorm is heard, and a boy calls, "Turn off the lights!"

At the landing field the noise went low, like a distant thunderstorm, but its darkness thickened the twilight closing in.

You say, 'Fay, speak,' and she sounds like a distant thunderstorm.

The bear-dog growled like a distant thunderstorm and started for Staples.