From the air all about came an earsplitting crack, like a clap of thunder, sudden, hard, painful.

The Peregrine smashed through the gate, synthetic wood shattering under the impact with an earsplitting crack.

The lightning flung him a dozen feet, its earsplitting crack drowning his final cry.

Coincidentally, or maybe not, the storm chose that moment to let off a sheet of dazzling green lightning and an earsplitting crack of thunder.

With an earsplitting crack, the upper platforms collapsed, an avalanche of boulders and broken beams thundered into the gallery.

Picard slammed the lid of the flute box shut with an earsplitting crack.

The grenade detonated with an earsplitting crack, and the kitchen windows shattered under the lethal hail of metal fragments.

An earsplitting crack barely preceded the fall of another beam.

The explosions from their own photon torpedoes sent an earsplitting crack of white noise through the communicator channel.

Suddenly there came an earsplitting crack!