Synonyms
Examples for "thud"
Examples for "thud"
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The reality of her new situation was brought home with a thud.
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I could hardly believe that dull thud issued from my own body.
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The thud of big wooden sledge hammers driving in the tent stakes.
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A bit later I heard his shoes thud against the floor, separately.
5
I heard a dull thud inside and knew exactly what it was.
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Talen skirted rounded the clump of trees and immediately saw the situation.
2
It lay just under that particular clump of bushes, in the shade.
3
He strode outside Garadar a short way to a clump of trees.
4
The shack is straight back in the deepest clump of buttonball trees.
5
The house stood back from the road in its clump of pines.
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Weary male voices chant 'One, two, free!', followed by a chain-clanking thump.
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A noise came from behind the nearby elm tree: a heavy thump.
3
A moment later a heavy thump on the roof shook the cab.
4
The familiar thump of the postern gate shutting was therefore most unwelcome.
5
Through the stillness of the night there sounded the thump of oar-locks.
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Across the room, something heavy fell to the floor with a clunk.
2
Seconds later I heard another clunk, receding footsteps, then the slamming door.
3
She corked the oil bottle and set it down with a clunk.
4
Reggie turned the key and they heard the clunk of a mechanism.
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The negatives include ventilation controls that clunk and scrape with no damping.
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Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
2
Europe's population is in decline, and American supremacy has taken a thumping.
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Bullies, pimps, and predators often didn't understand anything but a good thumping.
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The thumping noise was louder; he was going in the right direction.
5
The anniversary will be marked this year with much fanfare and chest-thumping.
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After a few minutes, Zilpha heard a thumping noise inside the machine.
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In the distance he could hear the thumping of the water pump.
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Heart thumping, she went to the open ballroom doors and looked in.
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He said something I couldn't hear over the thumping of the rain.
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My heart started thumping hard, as if I'd been in a fight.
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Heart thumping, I liberated my prize and stumbled back to the building.
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He set it down again, thumping the heavy glass against the countertop.
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The kudzu had taken to thumping over and over on the glass.
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The animal moved steadily toward him, its footsteps thumping on the ground.
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Hector the Barber was now thumping his foot in time and grinning.
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It's the moose-hunting, liberal-baiting, bible-thumping governor of the US's most obscure state.
