| A second later, the sky is split by lightning that illuminates the hillside, followed by an earsplitting clap. |
| This earsplitting racket continued, he says, without interruption for two days. |
| Foreign arrivals last summer were obliged to duck under scaffolding and sidestep earsplitting riveters and sandblasters in order to reach a makeshift passport control desk. |
| If you're close enough, the first sound is that of an earsplitting blast and the sounds that follow are of a rain of glass, shrapnel and other sharp things. |
| The automatic radiation safety equipment filled the ship with an earsplitting buzz of warning. |
| She cast about anxiously for Alina and upon sighting her on the second story let out an earsplitting whinny. |
