How To Use Thudding In A Sentence
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Then I realized that I couldn't hear anything at all, nothing but a constant thudding like a heartbeat in my eardrum.
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Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music.
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Each song delivers short, thudding, dirge-like rock with the same bleak atmosphere.
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Try as they might, there is one word that Labour MPs can't bring themselves to mention on election bumph now thudding on to doormats.
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Peter was aware of his heart thudding in his chest.
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There was a heavy thudding noise against the bedroom door.
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Treading down the hallway from the bedroom, anxious to see what food might be available to me, I halted as a thudding came from the entry door to the apartment.
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She ran up the stairs, her bare feet thudding on the wood.
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It went around corners happily, and wasn't badly upset by the sort of suburban ruts and bumps which had the YRV thudding and bumping along.
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The weasel yanked a bowie knife out of a sheath on his hip and threw it at Lee, who nipped it neatly out of the air, and sent it thudding into the earth at the weasel's feet.
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The shot was from a news helicopter and Cecil could hear the thudding of the helicopter rotors in the background as the reporter began to speak.
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The only sounds here were the stirrings of plants, the occasional skreek of a nightbird, and the soft thudding steps of the horses.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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This time it was a loud thudding and scraping, as though furniture was being moved around and, all the while, there was a persistent chattering.
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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 sound becomes an acrid smog, a dull thudding headache, in which it is well-nigh impossible to distinguish the individual elements.
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Something heavy thumped into my shoulder and I cried out as I was sent sprawling to the floor, thudding to the ground.
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Bullets were thudding against the wall
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Asterisks never even noticed it, but next moment when something fell with a thudding 'splosh' on the wet ground behind the trench the men nearest the spot lifted their heads and stared curiously.
Between the Lines
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One theory suggested he would attempt to bludgeon his way into American hearts by adopting the thudding beats and screaming guitars of metal.
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When Max repeatedly butts his head against the real world and runs through the dark night streets in his filthy wolf costume, a thudding foreign yelp-chanting playing underneath, I remembered that sense of unencumbered emotion in childhood and how foreign the materiality and obstinance of the real world and grownup interactions were.
Has the Wild Rumpus Begun Yet?
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No reason for his heart to be thudding like a cornered stag's.
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Attempts to filmically infuse this material with a Tolkien-esque sweep and drive will fail, as the thudding Prince Caspian — the second adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series — failed: the intimacy evaporated, the pageantry became stultifying, the audience went zzzz.
Sex and the Single Wizard
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By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin.
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There were only seconds in which they heard the thudding pads.
THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
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She had told the court the repeated football playing by neighbourhood children and thudding of a ball on the gable end wall of their home in nearby Primrose Grove, had driven her and her husband to the end of their tether.
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thudding bullets
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The two Siamese battered around her, thudding their sinuous backs against her shoulders.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Music, the thin reeding of pipes, the thudding of a small drum.
THE LAST RAVEN
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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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With a thudding heart, I took a few steps forward and then overbalanced.
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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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Scattering earth was blasted out into the Rabbit Grounds, and the thudding noises rolled through the air.
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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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In the third, he was able to outstrike Buentello using a series of thudding leg kicks.
Fanhouse Main
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She swigs a third and realizes she is too wasted to think about her thudding head.
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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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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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Peter was aware of his heart thudding in his chest.
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She ran up the stairs, her bare feet thudding on the wood.
