A long, maddening silence, every creak and exhalation, thunderous.

In thunderous silence he raced to the traffic lights and had to brake hard as the lights changed.

Stromo called his troops to a halt, and they stopped in a moment of thunderous silence.

The timid knock at the door sounded quite loud in the momentary, thunderous silence.

The thunderous silence that followed was broken by an erratic snorting.

She waited until they finished and, amid thunderous silence, cleared the table, washed the dishes and dried them.

You are most distinguished by your thunderous silence and your complete irrelevance.

Indeed, his affirmative action speech was followed by more than a year of thunderous silence on the issue.

His glass hit the exact center of the fireplace, and he strode out amid a thunderous silence.

There was a moment of thunderous silence, while they stared upon each other bitterly, like enemies feeling for a killing hold.