How To Use Thud In A Sentence
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A neighbour reported hearing a thud that sounded like a garbage bag being dropped.
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You shut your biology book with a thud, and stared at him from across the table.
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Feet sounded on the deck, the thud of a heavy rope against the hull, the blare of a siren.
HIGH STAND
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A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
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He and the coffee table hit the ground with a loud thud and the sound for breaking wood.
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With muffled thuds and a yelp, Ace and the thief tussled on the floor.
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A scampering noise beat across the ceiling before a little trapdoor opened with a dull thud, previously completely invisible to all in the bar.
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The boy fell to the ground with a thud.
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The pounding roar of the first shot resounded from inside the cracked-open sphere, and the nigrescent space thudded with the rutilant explosions of needlecraft.
In Other Worlds
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The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head.
The Garden of Allah
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With a thudding heart, I took a few steps forward and then overbalanced.
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The two Siamese battered around her, thudding their sinuous backs against her shoulders.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The late-nights thuds and bangs have made it loud and clear - it's firework time again.
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He hit the floor with a sickening thud.
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After a few second, he heard a resounding smack and a thud as Valshar obviously hit the wall.
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The thud of artillery shook sandy ground underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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He easily cleared the wall by five feet and agilely landed on the ramp lining the inside of the walls with a hollow ‘thud.’
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Walker, standing at the foot of the shaft waiting for the answering signal from above, heard the noise and the rush of Mag's body as it bumped from side to side in its mad descent, and starting back, he was just in time to get clear as the mangled mass of rags and blood and pulpy flesh fell with a loud splashy thud at the bottom, the blood spattering and "jauping" him and the bottomer, and blinding their eyes as it flew all over them.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
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He made sure he wasn't being watched and leaped over the veranda, landing with a soft thud on the mossy ground.
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He began to pace slightly, his familiar heavy tread thudding in my ears as if he were marching in my head, crushing with his boots my own thoughts and dreams.
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For a few moments, the only sound was the heavy thud of the ball as it pounded, rhythmically, against pale walls.
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A door thudded against the concrete walls and the sound ricocheted down to my ears.
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So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud.
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Teigue wordlessly toed off his shoes, letting them hit the floor with two dull thuds.
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Round her, and for a mile away, they fought like rams and they fought like dogs and they fought like tigers, and over the roaring siren sounds of the fight the gulls flew like the fume of it, screaming and swooping and circling in spirals, and through everything like the continuous thud-thud of a propeller came the dunch of tons of flesh meeting tons of flesh head on, shoulder on, or side on.
The Beach of Dreams
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He hit the ground with a loud thud and the crunch of pine needles.
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The troll let out a growl of fury as it dropped the tainted sword with a loud thud.
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His head hit the floor with a dull thud.
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I have memories of being in bed, hearing a horrible thud and my dad crying out in pain as he hit his head again.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thud of tight "catgut" strings against ball marks the moment: it is 4: 57 p.m.
'A Terrible Splendor'
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Altair shouted as he was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud, his horse pacing anxiously beside him.
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Two muffled thuds rumbled out of the forward cargo hold, disks of steel plating on either side of the hold blowing outward.
CORMORANT
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She could hear the thud of her own heartbeat sounding heavily in her ears.
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Shankland almost scored at the wrong end when his attempted clearing header thudded against Mitchell's bar and bounced to safety.
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Mr. O'Brien makes a brave leap in the dark and lands with a resounding thud.
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There was a second of hesitation, possibly as Meghan was preparing for another punch, and then a creak and a thud.
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The width of the pavement plus about six inches, as Matt and the cart hit the fence about halfway up with a sickening, bone-crunching thud.
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Two distant percussive thuds, like a car door being slammed, sound from across the river and two more shells barrel overhead with a low growl.
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The room was very still; its ordered comfort, the measured ticking of the carriage clock on the mantelshelf, the insistent thudding of the sea, all heightened the sense of outrage, the crudity of destruction and hate.
She Closed Her Eyes
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As the heavy door fell into place he felt thud after thud after sickening thud as the loathsome creatures outside crashed into the building.
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Except Gideon saw no animals, no monkeys or snakes, nothing but mosquitoes and moths nearly as big as his hand, which thudded around in the trees above him.
Gideon’s war
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A scream arose from the foliage and a thud was heard as a French soldier hit the hard ground.
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Each sound is rendered in precise detail - bullets crack as they pass your head and thud wetly as they enter your body.
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Slowly the the boat came into dock with the moorings and a slight thud resounded through out the ship as the cuffs locked down the ship holding it in place.
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He said: 'We heard a big thud on the front door.
The Sun
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She felt no grief, but a dull anger thudded like a drum in her temple.
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Gradually the catawampus gained on her; she could hear the closer thudding of its hugely clawed feet, and the blasting bellow of its breath.
Roc and a Hard Place
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The elevator slammed into the ground with a dull thud, and the doors screeched open.
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Hearing a loud thud, he went outside and raised the alarm.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the intolerable thudding forced her back onto the vanity stool, where there she reassumed her daily shape: poor sad, achingly human Beverly Saunders, to whom no Dr. Alfred Curie would ever deign to speak.
The Color of Silence is Radium Green
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Even with jillions of Shrek 2 DVD's selling, they'll still be smarting from the thud-in-waiting of Father of the Pride and the wiffle-to-be Shark Tale.
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Boots thudded on the hard floor as the man wearing them looked into each of the cells.
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The Grimm Ambient drags even lower with ‘Bathory,’ starting with thudding subharmonics, spreading out and shuddering to reluctant end.
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I could hear him thudding about upstairs in his heavy boots.
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We sat there on the floor, Diana and I, and read the little book together, while the rain thudded against the window panes.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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Cal's mud-caked boots thudded down the hall and down the stairs.
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Next minute she heard a dull thud and all sound from the back ceased.
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Men began to say that he 'jawed' too much and would not let them go to bed, little knowing how he used to try to prolong a conversation so that he might not be left alone with a horrible fear always ready to pounce upon him when night fell, and when only the thud of the engines playing some maddening tune broke the silence.
Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
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The car hit the child with a sickening thud.
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And the music: not guitars and plaintive harmonicas but the brain-deep electronic thud of rave.
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The term "garage rock" conjures images of loud, forceful music, often with heavy distortion, thudding kick drums and hollered vocals.
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Her ears picked up the sound of a soft rustle, and then beneath it, the quiet steady thudding of cushioned weight hitting the ground.
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The boots were next to go, and those were flung in different directions with dull thuds.
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It thuds hollowly when the subtheme of his attacks on scientists such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas is that they're in the pay of industry, where evil pays the piper (and calls the tune), as opposed to the academy, where only good prevails.
'Follow the Money' Applies to Science
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Outside could be heard the creak and thud of damaged trees, and the thrashing of errant guttering and plastic garden furniture.
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Our car thuds over the worn grass and hills alongside the road, jerking us up and down.
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The final curtain closed on the valedictory sound effect off-stage - the hollow thud of an axe chopping down the cherry trees in the lost orchard.
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Finally they heard the thud of the American choppers.
The Sun
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The Puerto Rican jumped, and the tranquilizer dart thudded against the wall, narrowly missing him.
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We were then greeted by a loud thud against the door and a very loud voice yelling at us.
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A gusty wind beat against the long grey windows, and between the gusts the heavy rain thudded on the roof above.
The Fire Within
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But Taylor was relieved when a long range free-kick from Robert thudded against a post and rebounded to safety.
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When the word was given the brief day was almost spent, and it was slow work and tedious, rolling the big bales forward foot by foot The bullets of the Sunlanders blub-blubbed and thudded against them, but could not go through, and the men howled their delight But the dark was at hand, and Tyee, secure of success, called the bales back to the trenches.
THE SUNLANDERS
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He didn't see the scorched metal walls or feel the thuds and bumps as they drove over drift after drift.
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Music, the thin reeding of pipes, the thudding of a small drum.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Ian turned as he heard the dull thud and screech of brakes.
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There is a guncotton thud, some far-off shift or heave that is also a local sensation, a hollow body sound.
Underworld
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There is a sickening thud as she's hit - and is left lying motionless in the road.
The Sun
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His back thudded into a wall and he dropped quickly to the floor, the blade striking noiseless sparks against the wall where his head had just been seconds ago.
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With pulses atune to the morning's freshness, the girl galloped rapidly along the shell-road, the clattering thud of her horse's hoofs startling in the quiet.
Diane of the Green Van
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At least a dozen times over the past two years I've heard the sickening thud and tortured tire screech that signals a fresh wreck in the intersection.
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One of the men heard a thud, then a groan and another thud.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't know if you can hear the gunfire around me, as well as the thud of artillery, but there have been scattered gun battles, as we've been going through.
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One poor soldier crashed into the ground at breakneck speed with a dull thud which brought a sharp intake of breath from the crowd.
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And the cryings of the humans came nearer, and the thuddings of the great feet.
The Night Land
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By the third movement, the violins and violas are passing like ships in the night, the double bass thudding against their hulls as if to mark their dimensional presence.
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His head hit the floor with a dull thud.
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thudding bullets
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She tripped over her own foot, falling down the stairs and landing with a loud thud.
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Fire belched from dragon maws; huge clubs thudded to the earth with monstrous regularity, each blow signifying another walker crushed.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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To prevent the crashes, bumps, thuds, nicks and dings, follow these top ten parking lot driving tactics.
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He hit the floor with a sickening thud.
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Soon the ancient valley echoed to the sounds of grunting throwers, whose shots raised puffs of dust as they landed with a thud on the bare, sun-baked earth.
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His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop on to his forehead.
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The encyclopedia fell to the floor with a thud.
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Johnathan traced her with his eyes until she was out of sight, then sat up, unstrapping the gun and putting it onto the counter with a dull thud that no one heard.
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Scattering earth was blasted out into the Rabbit Grounds, and the thudding noises rolled through the air.
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She heard the soft thud of something hitting the ground, and crawled back to pick it up.
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There was a heave, then a thud that signified that the craft had beached.
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There is a sickening thud as she's hit - and is left lying motionless in the road.
The Sun
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A javelin, tarred and flaming, snapped from some springal, thudded into the stem castle.
Guardsman Of Gor
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Then he thudded head first against the alley wall and oozed down it while his companions whirled in astonishment.
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The street resounded to the thud of marching feet.
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She could hear the thud of her own heartbeat sounding heavily in her ears.
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His footsteps made loud thuds as he walked around the kitchen's ceramic floor.
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There was a dull thud as the box hit the floor.
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The audience seemed unperturbed by the distant thud of artillery.
Times, Sunday Times
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You would think when a bowl hits a tree the sound would be fierce, a loud clatter as stoneware explodes on birch bark dispersing shards in daffodils and grape muscari, but the noise is gentle, a thudding clink like empty bourbon bottles rattling hollow in Monday morning trash; yet this contusion of wood upon ceramic,
When a Bowl Hits a Tree
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So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud.
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A heavy thud had come against my door, and now I heard hard breathing and the dull stamp of muffled feet.
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The three of them then turned to look at the subject of their topic, just in time to see a grey address book fall out with a thud.
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Emily heard a sharp gasp, then the sound of shuffling feet, then several thuds and slaps as the purists complied with the request, their paws meeting the cabinets.
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He turned and dropped his hooves from off the countertop, and they clonked onto the ground with a hard thud.
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July 23, 2009 at 5:21 am fergit wha…ZZZzzzzzzzz *thud*
I will nap… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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With a heavy thud she slammed into the hat rack, which teetered and tottered before tipping toward her.
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I lugged my heavy bags upstairs and dropped them with a thud in the middle of the room.
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The car hit the child with a sickening thud.
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The blockbuster season was launched to the sound of a thud thanks to this leaden sequel.
Times, Sunday Times
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I cant take anything seriously, I dislike every single character, everything is overdramatic for no reason, I never feel suspense when they cut to commercial break with a loud thud, and since nothing is grounded in reality anymore, I really don't care about an explanation.
Lost’s Final Episode Gets a Title | /Film
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A bullet ripped through the air above his head with a whizz, another round thudded into the muddy ground nearby.
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He got nineteen in about two minutes, firing, finding a new target, firing again, throwing the bolt in a blur, watching them boys pivot when hit, then go slack as death sent them to paradise, them falling with the thud of jointless collections of bones and meat.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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The door gave way easily under her light bodyweight and Piper fell with a thud on the floor.
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In the third, he was able to outstrike Buentello using a series of thudding leg kicks.
Fanhouse Main
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Newton offers the best clue in telling us that he was already thinking about the motion of the planets and the why moons and stars didn't simply tumble disorganised through space when that pippin thudded down.
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To them, the crack of the centurion's whip and the thud of the hammer on nails are distant, alien sounds - a disturbing echo of Holy Week long ago, of Gregorian plainsong, of ferias in Seville.
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A dull thud could then be heard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just inches away there is the deep thud of a hoof or foot.
The Sun
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Every now and then, we can hear the dull thuds of exploded ordinance - over Mosul?
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Clapping hands, smacking counter tops, stomping shoes on tile-they all have a nice "clank", "thud", or "bom" which delight a curious 13-month-old.
Charlottesville Blogs
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I let the bag drop with a dead thud to the floor.
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It is a thud if the pressure be more acute, and the pattering, which is almost identical to the effect produced by a drop of water rolling on the inside of a sensitive ear, occurs when there is a double or treble intermission.
Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
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The blockbuster season was launched to the sound of a thud thanks to this leaden sequel.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a sickening thud as she's hit - and is left lying motionless in the road.
The Sun
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They were thrown off balance as they hit the floor with a loud resounding thud.
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The Air France jet thudded onto the runway, then skidded off the pavement moments later, bursting into flames.
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Jess swallowed, feeling her heart pump and thud.
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Just inches away there is the deep thud of a hoof or foot.
The Sun
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The resounding thud of the door closing was the next thing she heard.
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The microphone he was holding the stage with a thud as he rolled on to his back.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a dull thud as the box hit the floor.
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As she helped clear up the mess, she felt a heavy thud on her upper back.
The Sun
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She swigs a third and realizes she is too wasted to think about her thudding head.
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Across the territory, beaches were filled with the thud of drum beats and the yells of participating teams and their supporters.
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Taking long breaths to hide the agitated beats of my thudding heart, I leaned forward more intently to analyze the picture.
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I am writing this column by candlelight, and in the encircling gloom outside I can hear a few generators disturbing the otherwise still and airless night with their thudding din.
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The barge thudded against the razee galleon's tumblehome near the stern.
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The thud of their boots was lost amidst digitigrade slither and click.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
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He and friends were play-fighting with the clubs when there was a thud and he fell to the ground.
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There was a clatter of footsteps in the corridor, the thud of boots on the stairs.
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The mug went down with a thud upon the thick wooden table, the remaining dregs never to be touched again.
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The body of one of the yeshiva students thudded to the basement floor, his jeans and T-shirt soaked with blood.
The Omega Theory
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But there was nothing funny about the crunching thud as his forehead bounced off the kerbstone.
Fathers & Sons
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One of the men heard a thud, then a groan and another thud.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sound it made was a combination of a thud and a crunch.
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There was a dull thud as the box hit the floor.
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A pervasive gloom hung over this place, woven into the very stillness of the air, disturbed only by the thud of hooves on fallen leaves and now and then a soft clink as one of the mares champed her bit.
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She landed with a thud, and rolled, tucking her feet underneath her as the wind rushed out of her again.
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The front door closed behind him with a dull thud.
Times, Sunday Times
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She kept walking, her skirts swaying about her as she steadily paced on, heading once more toward the pinetum, her nerves strained, her senses even more so, waiting, aching to hear the soft thud of a footstep behind her.
The Perfect Lover
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The rope broke and the corpse dropped with a thud, but it was again hoisted, the charred legs barely touching the ground.
The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature
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Joven turned slowly, her heart thudding and her stomach clenching.
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Opening its jaws, the wolf-like beast charged forward, teeth gnashing at the air and paws thudding off the ground.
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His arrow thudded into the target.
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Footsteps thudded down the hall, and his hold on her loosened somewhat.
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The officer hit the ground with a sickening thud.
The Sun
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They were quiet for the rest of the short trip, rocking gently on the waves, as the boat headed for the growing island ahead, the light fading, the darkness rising; the waves lapping at the hull like the thuds of a war drum, in syncopation, with regularity.
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His heart thudded and he realized that he had begun to breathe faster, with excitement.
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He reached down and picked him up by his doublet, throwing him into a tree with a thud.
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Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier jets, of the Royal Air Force, scream overhead loosing off powerful projectiles which thud into the targets below.
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Presently the two crackling sails gybed over with a thud, and the
Swirling Waters
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Rackingly above the crash and lilt of music, the quick, wild thud of dancing feet, the sharp, staccato notes of laughter -- she heard the dull, heavy, unrhythmical tread of the oncoming years -- gray years, limping eternally from to-morrow on, through unloved lands, on unloved errands.
Little Eve Edgarton
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Peter was aware of his heart thudding in his chest.
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I winced each time it came down with a sickening thud into the gory mass.
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Behind them were the still madder, swifter, more terrible waters, coming in sudden thuds, in furious drives, eddying and sculping and rearing in an orgy or remorseless and heartrending destruction.
Waysiders
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A little later we hear two dull thuds echoing across the valley as one of the Apaches fires its missiles.
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There, they wait until they hear either the thud of impact or the all-clear.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second is a dirty buzz carved from the crude hum of electric motors as amplified by dirty magnetic coils and pockmarked by amorphous rattles and disembodied thuds.
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She ran up the stairs, her bare feet thudding on the wood.
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Finally they heard the thud of the American choppers.
The Sun
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His heart thudded crazily.
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His head hit the floor with a sickening thud.
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She hit with a thud and water spewed from her mouth as her body convulsed, racked with coughing.
Healing the Highlander
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Jeremy slides into his chair and Kasey sets the bucket with a dull thud on the floor.
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I had heard the thuds, bangs and screams last night.
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Then the light disappeared, and the door thudded shut.
Gideon’s war
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Her necklace thudded heavily on the floor as she fell down flat on her stomach.
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I heard a dull thud from the kitchen and realized she must have fainted.
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Brown and striped cat shapes sinuously intermingled, hissing and yowling, and fell off the bed with three soft thuds.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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A sickening thud came from the direction of the tower.
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I heard his head hit the floor like a thud.
The Sun
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The uncertainty almost costs him his wicket when he comes meekly half-forward to ball that kisses the inside edge, thuds into the pad and falls inches short of a diving Cook.
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The dull thud of leather on willow.
The Sun
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Unused to such harsh treatment, the horse reared back on its hind legs, unseating Jack Foster who landed with a thud on his backside.
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I recall that a teacher was standing in front of me when suddenly there was a big thud.
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There were dull thuds from the cargo hold.
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She looked up and smirked as her brother went clumping out of the room, his boots thudding loudly, deliberately.
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The thud of artillery shook sandy ground underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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One might watch a game of foot-ball being played, and hear nothing but the thud of the kicking; or one might watch wrestling-contests in the jiujutsu-room, and hear no word spoken for half an hour at a time.
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
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the dull thud
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She could hear the thud of her own heartbeat sounding heavily in her ears.
