Sentence examples of "clap of thunder" in English
It is because light travels faster than sound that we see lightning before we hear thunder.
Si vemos al rayo antes de oír el trueno, es porque la luz viaja más rápido que el sonido.
Angry at Leif Ericson for stealing his thunder 500 years before, Christopher Columbus once wrote a rigorous mathematical proof that showed how Ericson had never actually been to North America. Unfortunately, the proof was too difficult for even the brightest mathematicians to understand.
Enfadado con Leif Ericson por haberle robado el descubrimiento 500 años antes, Cristóbal Colón una vez escribió una rigurosa demostración matemática que demostraba que Ericson nunca había estado realmente en América del Norte. Desgraciadamente, ésta era demasiado difícil de entender incluso para los matemáticos más brillantes.
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