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How to pronounce “thunderbolt”
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Pronunciation guide for thunderbolt
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of thunderbolt with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Let’s Make the World Wild Again
was a complete thunderbolt for us.
- Definition summary
- A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce thunderbolt
Let’s Make the World Wild Again

was a complete thunderbolt for us.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “thunderbolt”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
- (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
- Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
- (soccer) A very powerful shot.
- (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
- (heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
- A daring or irresistible hero.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, rare) To strike with a thunderbolt.
- (rare) To move swiftly and violently.
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