Meaning: A loud, deep sound reverberated through the sky during the storm.
Choice of Words: Thunder: loud noise during a storm; rumbled: made a deep, rolling sound; across: from one side to the other; sky: the expanse above the earth.
Alternative Expressions
The sky roared with thunder.
Meaning: This means that the sky made a loud, deep sound like a lion, and that sound was thunder.
Choice of Words:Roared is a verb that means to make a loud, deep sound like a lion. With means together with or accompanied by something. Thunder is the loud noise made by lightning.
Thunder boomed through the heavens.
Meaning: This means that there was a loud, deep sound like an explosion that moved from one side of the sky to the other.
Choice of Words:Boomed is a verb that means to make a loud, deep sound like an explosion. Through means from one side to the other. Heavens is a word for the sky or the place where God lives.