How To Use Thump In A Sentence

What's more, the prospect of one of the most important chunks of Britain's transport infrastructure being sold soon riled a good deal of nationalistic tub-thumping.
So I put the guitar on clean, put on the delay effect, and I arpeggiate the chords at the right speed to get this really crazy thumping sound. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame.
For all its heart-thumping glory, it can also come with a heavy-duty helping of awkwardness and anxiety.

A person does not take one emotional thump in the face and willingly put himself up for more. Times, Sunday Times
But this year, when precisely the same measure came up for a required second vote, it was defeated by a thumping margin of 157 to 39.
The strong, even thump of her pulse against his skin reassured him.
The boat lurched 370 and Thorn thumped a shinbone against the glass coffee table and almost went down. BLACKWATER SOUND
Patients may feel palpitations or a thump in the chest when a beat compensates for a prior missed beat.
And I can hear the clump clump clump of the three posh post-university flatsharing chums thumping about their flat upstairs, slamming doors, shouting to each other and walking heavy-footed across my dream-flat.
Yep, aggressive lyrics and guitar riffs, all backed by the trademark thumping drums, with only moments of calm to provide a respite from the headbanging.
I mean, maybe they'd rather jolly a single party, with all home comforts as wives or mistresses, than be thumped by four different randies every night. Isabelle
In the scenes set within the club, superbly loud music makes your subwoofers thump and your rump shake and roll.
It's more about continuing improvement, but obviously the end goal has to be to win the World Cup - without making any tub-thumping promises.
The bass guitar began to thump so loudly that it resonated in my head.
The milking machines thump like a distant drum. Times, Sunday Times
Immediately she heard the sound of shoes thumping from the other side of the house.
And just because you don't see 45 million tub-thumpers doesn't mean that we don't have them.
You've got to have courage, " he said, thumping his chest.
Fellow MEPs hurled abuse at Mr Berlusconi and thumped their desks in the European Parliament Chamber in dismay.
Her heart thumped and a cold clamminess filtered into every pore of her skin.
I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
Alanis thumped the heavy metal knocker against the door.
He felt a thump on his shoulder.
But it is also an exquisitely coded and exploitative masterpiece of tub-thumping demagoguery. Times, Sunday Times
He is likely to be more upbeat, less highbrow, but nonetheless less tub-thumping than most home affairs spokesmen when he speaks to delegates at 3pm today.
A person does not take one emotional thump in the face and willingly put himself up for more. Times, Sunday Times
My favourite episode consisted of Bill Odie dressed in breeches and a flat cap wielding a black pudding ... well just hitting people with the black pudding in a demonstration of the ancient martial art of 'ecky thumph'. If You Only Knew the Power of the Dumb Side....
He would be up on his feet thumping, and telling us that repeal was the option.
I came flying from the back seat and thumped my head on the windscreen. Times, Sunday Times
There's never a constable around when you need one so the only recourse was that taken by the driver of a bus who sat thumping the horn repeatedly until the twerp came along to move and clear the jam.
In January 2009, Gordon Brown submitted a recipe for rumbledethumps to a cookbook for Donaldson's School for the Deaf, describing it as his favourite food Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management.
In reality, however, they are merely endorsing the dopey brand of entertainment industry tub-thumping that he has done so much to encourage.
Walking slowly forwards, he arches his dark forelegs over his head, then suddenly thumps them down, all the time his dark palps quivering under his face. Country diary: Orwell, Cambridgeshire
One can only imagine the heart pounding, blood thumpin ', adrenaline shootin' high, that a man gets when he sees one of these beauty's in the wild outdoors! Record Bucks of History
Both sisters described a nightmarish existence inside the city where fighters controlled many areas, food and medicine were often in short supply, and the thumping concussions of US bombs had become a daily reality.
Speech left me entirely then, and I am afraid I would have been most beautifully thumped, had not Sanders, the trainmaster, come over and stopped him. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
The acquisition of LF Brian Giles does more than give the Padres a thumping lineup.
Two dull thumps came from behind him and he turned.
In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
As he pressed his head hard to the man's chest he could hear the thump, thump of a healthy heart beat.
Stair soothed the dog with one hand, for he could hear his heart thump in short laboured leaps as if after a long pursuit of a dog-fox on the hillside. Patsy
Applying increasing pressure on the brakes with 3,000 feet of runway to go, we felt a strong thump below the jet.
Once again, there was the sound of footsteps thumping up the stairs.
He tries to thump a couple from that over through cover, but mistimes it. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
She heard another thump, and then the creaking of floorboards, very faint, almost undetectable. LOST SUMMER
Dave thumped the table in frustration .
Yet once they start dancing, the effect is pure gold: the thumpy rhythms of their feet on the wooden floor of a park pavilion, the couple's shared power and mutual athleticism, their whizzing quickstep that feels like the Earth's been knocked off its axis and the effortless, ecstatic, romantic joy of it all. Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
The release goes on to list a number of chest-thumping accomplishments guaranteed to induce yawns among anyone who knows better.
She couldn't get her breath and had to be thumped on the back.
And he added the second with a thumping header right on half-time. The Sun
Hardly anybody now alive is old enough ever to have seen and heard that boisterous old callithump known as a "dyke," which was famous enough once upon a time. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
I had determined to seek elsewhere for a more social party, when the thumping of tables and gingle of glasses induced me to abide the issue. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
The thump of a stapler, the snick of a ballpoint, the rattle of paper, the bass crepitation of the mail cart against the carpet.
And it was indeed a position, rather than a point of view -- a vehement, tub-thumping position -- that Hitchens always took as a matter of course, whatever the subject in hand. Roger Housden: Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?
Cabarets, bean-counting contests, lotteries and callithumpian methods generally marked a period in Canada's recruiting history not pleasant to review, and which brought discredit upon the entire voluntary enlistment system as a permanent method of filling up armies. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
Her heart thumped wildly as she was welcomed by familiar faces. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
Live music thumps out of the bars and clubs, a music scene that has produced artists as varied as The Undertones and Dana.
And it's true that tub-thumpers looking for explicit invectives against the former Mayor will want to take their ire elsewhere.
The music thumps in his ears as the wind and other cars speed by in a swirl of motion and color.
The bassline thumps and voices declaim, growl or howl. Times, Sunday Times
But the noise of sailors swearing, pigs squealing, chickens squawking, children bawling and fathers threatening them with the backs of their hands brought them back to reality with a thump.
He says nothing about the Dutch SP Arty bty that has been happily thumping the s***t out of baddies, sometimes in sp of Canadians. Daimnation!: Afstan: The sainted Dutch, or Mr Smith goes to Uruzgan
What they forgot to take into account, however, is that you do not hear the primary charge of a rifle being fired if you are more than 100 metres from it, you only hear the "thwack" or "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, followed by a MUTED primary charge thump (weapon firing). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
If you go to a world championship boxing match, you know, one of the boxers will come in inevitably thumping his fists in time with the drumbeat.
Champions Nestlé Rowntree continued their 100 per cent start to the season by thumping hosts Whitkirk Wanderers 5-0.
He is not a tub-thumper but no one can doubt his commitment. Times, Sunday Times
A collision with one of the Home Nations feels made for his tub-thumping aggression and inspiration. Chelsea fans salute the 'one England captain' but John Terry must wait | Dominic Fifield
It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like. Isabelle
Alexander's new job is to tub-thump for more business start-ups, better training, better skilling, raising our business horizons.
Generally a guy called Martand would start thumping the desk and everyone would follow suit.
Well, are McCain and Palin are holding this girl now -- who apparently got impregnated at age 16, which is something that doesn't sit well with many of us, including those of who thump Bibles as if they were tympany -- in front of themselves to hold off the inevitable: McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant
During our dinner conversation he told me all about her and said that one of his qualifications for a wife was that she had to have Christian beliefs, but not act like a "Bible thumper.
How many “Bible-thumpers” have you seen calling evolutionists stupid for believing what is taught to them in public schools? 300 secular students visit Ken Ham's Creation “Museum” - The Panda's Thumb
As an auxiliary to the bilging by boring, the masts are often cut away under the pretence of making her "lie easy," or to prevent "thumping."
He is a believer, attends church once a month but is 'not a tub-thumper'. Times, Sunday Times
Likewise, back at the ranch, the Godless blue states rank, on average, ahead of the Bible-thumping red states on such hot-button morality indicators as divorce, unwed mothers and domestic violence.
The first was a familiar swell of pained and wincing why-oh-whying as it became clear that the Premier League's most consistently infuriating club would not win a trophy this season: talk of callowness, foreign-accented surrenderism and a crucial absence of Anglophone chest-thump. Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs - it's a thumping good read.
He thumped the report down on my desk.
But it very quickly degenerates into a flatfooted, predictable affair with a thumpingly earnest moral message. Times, Sunday Times
Spring is sprung, hormones are jumping, hearts are thumping and the seasonal cycle of attraction's in full swing once more.
Daisy leaned down to thump him on the back while she beamed at Kimberly 's shocked face. KISS AN ANGEL
He was the sort of person who would angrily thump the table and shout at the radio during political discussion programmes.
A cold sweat ran over me, and my heart began thumping violently, almost painfully, in my chest.
The recorder captured the sounds of loud thumps, crashes, shouts, and breaking glasses and plates.
He thumped a chance over the bar.
Not the cadent rattle of the thin cylindrical drums the Trivigauntis used, but the steady _thumpa-thumpa-thump_ of Vironese war drums, drums that suggested the palaestra's big copper stew-pot whenever she saw them, war drums beating out the quickstep used to draw up troops in order of battle. Exodus From The Long Sun
Haworth move into second place after thumping visitors Ingrow St John's by nine wickets.
I came flying from the back seat and thumped my head on the windscreen. Times, Sunday Times
That said, the sporty T5 version can thump and bang over bad bumps, the downside of its quicker, meatier responses and extra grip.
A thumping defeat at this point in time could have done some serious damage to morale.
She gave the television a good thump, and the picture came back.
After four hours of climbing the near vertical mountain footpath, the headache had matured into a persistent thump with each heartbeat.
Voices still chattered in the hallway, doors squeaked open, slammed shut, feet thumped, tramped up and down the stairs.
The bully we mentioned in number 2, who has grown up a lot and become mates with my brother, notices this, and gives the lad a talking-to, and let's be honest, a thump.
She thumped the table with her fist.
Over his not entirely clean white collar you could see his Adam's apple thumping.
After a wobbly period Chelsea fight back: a long punt forward nearly puts Gudjohnsen in, and then Gallas's 40-yard thumper bounces just past Kahn's post.
After thumping Burnley 5-1 last Saturday, City moved two points clear at the top thanks to the Clarets fixture with Bradford falling foul of the elements.
Give them, still covered by the cloth, repeated thumps with a heavy kitchen implement to crack them slightly.
By ceromancy, where, by the means of wax dissolved into water, thou shalt see the figure, portrait, and lively representation of thy future wife, and of her fredin fredaliatory belly-thumping blades. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
There were two dull thumps as bodies fell to the ground.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown - there's always time for rumbledethumps. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
Audio is muted until the amp has stabilized, so you'll hear no pops or thumps during power up.
The spritsailyard rattled, and broke off sharp'at the point where it crossed the bowsprit; and a heavy smashing thump against our bows told, in fearful language, that we had run her down. Tom Cringle's Log
I turn to my left and spot a silhouette of a fin in the depths; my heart is thumping. Times, Sunday Times
A shadow ran down the aisle, thumping a loose board under my head.
She's got a filthy mouth and doesn't think twice about thumping me hard. The Sun
The lyrics echo in my head, and my heart thumps harder as memories flash before my eyes.
And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness _in word_, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and _trying_ to be so, because he is not so. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
It lands on deck, straight out, with a heavy thump. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
As for watermelons, pick the ones minus dents or scratches and a light thump should yield a dull hollow sound.
Anyway, he is hardly a part of the tub-thumping religious zealots on the right.
Grandbois: The last time I heard anything remotely flattering about Buckwaldo Mudthumper I was three feet deep in viscous sewage that had found its way into my garden apartment at the behest of one Mr. Juan Mandible Sick-Eyes and his uncompromising hoses. Daniel Grandbois' Lucky Unlucky Lucky Days
The older I get the jumpier I get around thumps, bangs, and doof doof doof. Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.
thumping basslines
The heavy thump of acid house music was everywhere.
I got round to stop him doing it and he managed to open the door and thumped me. The Sun
And so I packed up enough clothes for a few days and went and visited Dan, who generously looked after me with a complete package of baked beans, ultra-delicious soup, hot tea, geekspeak and a vicious thump on the head with a soccer ball.
I'll thump you if you say that again.
Her eyes wouldn't open and she heard the steady thump of her heart pound in her ears, signaling she was still alive.
There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut. In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
‘Let go, I'm not one of those girls,’ she protested, thumping her balled fists against my chest.
You take any random word, preferably BAYBEE, chant it a few hundred times whilst repeatedly thumping any handy hard surface, record it with some techno tweaking, and Bob's your uncle.
The doors thumped shut behind her. Times, Sunday Times
But now my little heart is thumping with joy. Times, Sunday Times
The odd thing was is that Candice was sure she could hear the thump of his heart against his chest.
He was in tub-thumping mode this week as the hours ticked down to his side's Premiership opener against Aston Villa.
The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor.
THE pounding thump of the kick drum. The Sun
But it's not just populist tabloid tub-thumping.
The cupboard door kept swinging open only to be thumped closed by Ivan, who had incorporated this gesture into the rhythm of the dance.
In the pull, I heard a ‘thump’ and concluded that the tailwheel must have gone to full extension and hit a lower stop as a result of the ascent rate.
He gazed ruminantly away from the lagoon to the pool of Psyche, where the Tahitian women squatted on their shapely haunches and thumped their clothes. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
His pink, shell-like horn strikes the glass with an audible thump.
She heard the dull thump of someone knocking weakly on the door.
Fancy some cabbie claw or potted hough followed by a nice bit of Finnan haddie or howtowdie, served with skirlie and rumbledethumps?
the thumping beat of her heart
My heart thumped as I suddenly heard the outside screen door slowly creak open. Christianity Today
A rock song played in the background and the crowd thumped along to the beat.
His fist thumps the wooden table - bare except for a pen and a notepad for writing orders - for emphasis.
There was a strange thumping at my ribs when I had the garron at the door, and would be tramping the long yellow straw from his forefeet, and I led him out of the yard and we were on the shoulder of the black hill when the moon was beginning to go down. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
He was so angry that he thumped the table with his fist.
I woke with a thumping head and flashes of being through a painful ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
But while it would have been satisfying to draw parallels between the Clash's revolutionary tub-thumping of 1976 and the incendiary events of the week, the reality wasn't so neat. Punk spoke up for angry kids. Why won't today's bands follow suit
You don't need to worry about having a couple of big blokes thumping your door and giving you a hard time.
When I tried to stop him he hit me in the face and knocked my glasses flying, then he thumped me in the chest.
The young striker, on loan from Aston Villa, thumped the ball home.
She thumped the desk with her fist.
The sky rattled loudly and the noise sounded like rain clouds thumping together, creating a shaft movement of energy.
A minute later he heard the rhythmic thump of the starboard bilge pump uniting with his own pumping.
Then there was another thump at the gates, this time followed by a blood-curdling scream of terror and agony.
The drone of aircraft propellers and thump of helicopter rotors made way for screaming auto engines and squealing tyres.
The whole house was so glad that the scoundrel had been exposed that they set up siccan a roar of laughter, and thumped away at siccan a rate with their feet that down fell the place they called the gallery, all the folk in't being hurl'd topsy-turvy among the sawdust on the floor below. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
Her thrashing solo builds into a tantrum, fists and feet thumping the floor, only for her colleagues to glide across the stage like the coolest of cats. Times, Sunday Times
But there was no thumping the air or revelling in her triumph.
Despite a tub-thumping speech at conference he has proved himself lazy and self-regarding in the race so far.
He thumped the report down on my desk.
I'll thump you if you say that again.
While his heart thumped eagerly he went with slow and pretended reluctance back to the old desk.
Trouble is, the thumping header was inside the six-yard box and he should have buried it. The Sun
There was a single, hard thump against the door.
I have the greatest respect for honorable toil, but even more for callithump. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
No boast, no brag, no chest-thumping, no combat fatigues.
They were distracted by a dull thumping sound from the other side of the room.
Chesterfield's thumping victory was under way after just 16 minutes. The Sun
At several points during our conversation, I simply couldn't hear over the deafening thump of my own pulse.
I idled over the Sancerre while Helen cleared the plates and brought the Red Label out, which she put down with a thump and a sigh. A DARKENING STAIN
The Right has a thumping majority.
She was born in the Bible-thumping Arkansas town of Lonoke.
The Soviet national anthem and the Moscow Festival song were thumped out by the band.
Success almost grabbed the winner, thumping his shot straight at Boruc. Times, Sunday Times
A thumping in the distance made him tense with fear and he slowed his pace to a jog.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
Those who still admire Ezra Pound's pretentious poetry will presumably enjoy listening to him reciting while thumping on a kettledrum.
Precisely at that moment, I felt a kick – a fluttery “thump, thump” in my own uterus. ProWomanProLife » Read it and weep (literally)
He has his money to take care of; a pleasant occupation, you may think; but, after all, an _occupation_, with all the strain and anxiety of labor, making more hard work for him, day and night, perhaps, than his neighbor has who digs ditches or thumps a lapstone. Humanity in the City
Sometimes rapid thumps on the tambourine might be heard, indicating that the saltarello was again in rehearsal. A romance of the republic
Instead, with the skirl of the bagpipes and a thumping bass beat, on comes Flower of Scotland and we sing along as lustily as if we are at Murrayfield.
Or what's called a manny: someone to whip the kids into shape, lend structure, cook dinner and thump his chest. 'Melissa & Joey': '90s stars Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence do a 30s thing
Amplified harmonica, foot thumping guitar and screechy blues hollers and shouts are immediately distinctive, taking you back to an era before blues turned slick.
Organised fans carry small plastic megaphones which they thump with enthusiasm against the seats in front.
Now I just feel like a thumping huge disappointment to myself.
I realized presently that my special forte lay in directing a sizable garden like that rather than in performing the actual labor, especially when June arrived and the sun began to approach the perpendicular and take on callithump. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
The sight and sound of predominately young males parading around the county with stereos thumping and large exhausts growling is a growing nuisance.
His heart thumped with excitement at the sight of the girl.
I moved about uncomfortably, listening to the thumps on the roof as they loaded up the cargo.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
One poor guy gagged on his retainer and his pal thumped him on the back.
Thumping drum and bass booms out, then cans of cider are passed round.
The thumping, Morse code like bass-line harmonizes with the psychedelic guitars flawlessly to provide the right atmosphere to let loose and have a good time.
The company had intended the launch to be the usual raucous, overblown tub-thumping spectacle, but subsequent to last week's events a far more sober event will be appropriate.
Instead of thumping out his reply, he'll stare vacuously at the board for a while.
If you get stuck, either holler or thump your foot three times. THIS TIME LOVE
There was all the people in the windows and piazzas to the back of the house, in their night-clothes, some screeching as if they had fits; and there was the nigger-wench in her white shimmey, dancing a rigadoon on the grass, and pulling out her wool, and thumping herself like a possessed body in the New Testament. Tales of Glauber-Spa
City fans' quest for glory in the Worthington Fives national five-a-side supporters' competition came to a thumping end in the quarter-finals.

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