How To Use Thumping 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
For all its heart-thumping glory, it can also come with a heavy-duty helping of awkwardness and anxiety.
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.
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.
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.
Immediately she heard the sound of shoes thumping from the other side of the house.
You've got to have courage, " he said, thumping his chest.
I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
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.
He would be up on his feet thumping, and telling us that repeal was the option.
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.
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.
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.
The acquisition of LF Brian Giles does more than give the Padres a thumping lineup.
In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
Once again, there was the sound of footsteps thumping up the stairs.
The release goes on to list a number of chest-thumping accomplishments guaranteed to induce yawns among anyone who knows better.
And he added the second with a thumping header right on half-time. The Sun
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
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?
The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
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
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.
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
Generally a guy called Martand would start thumping the desk and everyone would follow suit.
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."
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.
It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs - it's a thumping good read.
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.
A cold sweat ran over me, and my heart began thumping violently, almost painfully, in my chest.
Haworth move into second place after thumping visitors Ingrow St John's by nine wickets.
A thumping defeat at this point in time could have done some serious damage to morale.
Over his not entirely clean white collar you could see his Adam's apple thumping.
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.
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
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
Anyway, he is hardly a part of the tub-thumping religious zealots on the right.
thumping basslines
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.
But now my little heart is thumping with joy. Times, Sunday Times
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.
But it's not just populist tabloid tub-thumping.
the thumping beat of her heart
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
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.
The sky rattled loudly and the noise sounded like rain clouds thumping together, creating a shaft movement of energy.
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.
Trouble is, the thumping header was inside the six-yard box and he should have buried it. The Sun
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
The Right has a thumping majority.
She was born in the Bible-thumping Arkansas town of Lonoke.
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.
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.
Amplified harmonica, foot thumping guitar and screechy blues hollers and shouts are immediately distinctive, taking you back to an era before blues turned slick.
Now I just feel like a thumping huge disappointment to myself.
The sight and sound of predominately young males parading around the county with stereos thumping and large exhausts growling is a growing nuisance.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
I move slightly and gasp, jumping backwards, heart thumping with shock and fright.
I was a shy schoolboy who was too shy to read in class without his heart thumping so loud that everybody could hear.
Next time your electricity or gas bill comes thumping through the door on to the mat, you could be excused for not being too sure you can trust it.
I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
The Italian saluted his champions after another thumping win. The Sun
Stella could feel the blood thumping angrily through her arteries. JUST BETWEEN US
At low tide there were acres of mud with screeching gulls scavenging; and at high tide steamerfuls of tourists charging past - with or without thumping music - for a quick trip up through the half-tide lock at Richmond into deeper waters above. Second Wind
In doing so, he provides two thumping great parts for actors. Times, Sunday Times
The thumping noise was still there as water dripped into the downspout. BLINDSIGHTED
Ironically, however, he says tub-thumping populism is exactly what isn't needed.
He belches And suck my thumping good Stock Exchange cigar while I read the Licensed Victualler's Gazette .
So when he stepped out on stage, with U2's "City of Blinding Lights" thumping from the loudspeakers, Obama joined hands with Reid. Obama stumps in Las Vegas to bail out Harry Reid
Drum-thumping salsa rhythms carried the procession through the city as showers of flowers were thrown from a large tower to people below.
Hearts thumping, we slipped beneath the surface, anticipating a gnarly passage through silty twists and turns, with the blood roaring in our ears and pulses hammering.
Well, for a start, I've only ever been a very occasional smoker - I cadge cigarettes off people when I'm very drunk and then always regret it the next morning when I not only wake up with a thumping hangover, but also with a mouth like an ashtray.
For many families this won't make up for a thumping loss of other benefits. Times, Sunday Times
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.
His dance became more and more chorioid as he jerked and twitched and twisted to the thumping bass of the song. He sho is hip, ain’t he? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The holocam tumbled out, and she caught it, barely preventing it from thumping on the floor. REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III
SAW 85-92 ends with the ho-hum "Actium," whose aimless thumping, gurgling, clicking, and clonking become monotonous well before it ends after nearly eight minutes. Epinions Recent Content for Home
The centre-back powered in a thumping header with 14 minutes left. The Sun
Fresh Prince of Bellaire, including the exact same wardrobe and throw in some dope self deprecating rhymes with a thumping beat and I'm sold. Hypebeast
This is a pounding tribal techno track, complete with various jungle animal sound effects and thumping percussive loops.
There's something oh, so satisfying about thumping a punch bag just as hard as you can.
But amid the pulsating strobe lights, the loud thumping music, the hustle and flow of the crowd not to mention the fact that Yes, omigod, that is Tom Hanks, standing right there within spitting distance, can you believe it? Starlit
He kept on following us down the street, repeating the same thing, jumping up at me waving his money, thumping my arms with his little fists.
Bran's heart was thumping in his chest as he pushed through a waist-high drift to his brothers' side.
Yet there it was, introducing the report in another newspaper of Stoke City's thumping victory over FC Thun in the Europa League last month. The lost boys rescued from wilderness years | Richard Williams
There was none of the tub-thumping of his predecessor at last night's fans' forum.
The thumping bass of The Docks, the islanders say, is tortuous, keeping them up all night.
She felt a steady thumping and Cain's hand seemed to pulse with each thump.
a thumping headache
By turns a tub-thumping populist and an exponent of radical reform, he can veer from policy measures which are crudely authoritarian to others which seem positively progressive.
The newspaper has accused me of being a "table-thumping protectionist."
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
Well, I'm sure that the British forces are ‘doing a thumping good job’ - I'm less certain that there's any end in sight.
With his heart thumping with excitement he felt like a conquering hero. FINAL RESORT
There he showed how much he was listening to the countryside by thumping a rural protestor.
The timing chain or belt can slap against the cover , producing a thumping or scraping sound.
She was born in the Bible-thumping Arkansas town of Lonoke.
There was a thumping of boots on the bank, I started round, and there was the moujik, not ten yards away. Fiancée
We strolled down Broadway - alive with shoppers and the thumping bass oompah of norteno music - before reaching the modern face of downtown, Bunker Hill.
a thumping loss
You won't learn how to bake a cake or wallpaper the kitchen but you will have a thumping, pumping, roller-coaster ride through the virtual world of computer and video games.
We should avoid the overblown statements and tub-thumping oratory.
Another bible-thumping creep from a bible college who thinks that gender gives him the right to rule. McDonnell blasted for controversial research paper
There they wait, hearts thumping and minds racing, for the signal to rush forward and do what Marines do best - fight forward and refuse to be defeated.
Richmond run machine Ben Griffiths plundered 184 runs to help his side to a thumping 117 run victory over Barnes on Saturday in Middlesex League Division One.
We're talking five-minute patches of overdriven Moog, bass-thumping and off-time drumbeats.
Not only does the rush of water into the cistern disturb any sleepers on the Prince of Wales Road side of the house, but my cistern is afflicted with peculiarly loud gurglings and thumpings, while frequently the pipes emit a loud groaning sound. Whose Body?
Lately, he has taken to apish chest-thumping in proclaiming that various individuals are ‘ducking’ and ‘backing down’ from him.
A tame draw suddenly became a thumping victory. Times, Sunday Times
The bullets whistled past Ash's head, thumping into nearby ships with a pock-twang noise.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
You need the right song to remix because there are certain ones that aren't constructed to add bleeps, scratches or a constant thumping bass line.
The Larimer Lounge has one of the loudest paint-peeling sound systems in all of Denver, and I tend to see a lot of raw, thumping shows inside those brick walls -- whether it's the calisthenic melee of the Handsome Furs, the "secret show" with England's mega-power-poppers Supergrass, the facemelt of El Ten Eleven, or even a little set for me to DJ. Heather Browne: Mayer Hawthorne Brings His Retro Cool to Denver This Week
But the film was far more than a piece of political tub-thumping.
His hand cleansed, he busied himself about the kitchen preparing the tea, hearing Frannie thumping about above. SACRAMENT
A thrilling performance, a thumping win and three precious survival points. The Sun
She could be a tub-thumping British patriot, but she also saw herself as a global stateswoman. John Campbell: Michele Bachmann: America's Iron Lady?
Without instruments, listeners will hear whooping, chattering, burbling, aspirating and the occasional thumping beatbox.
My temples are thumping, my pulse is racing, and I'm starting to shake, visibly.
General Musharraf was seen thumping his fists vigorously at the only wall in the room.
Yet the evidence gathers each year like a thumping great storm cloud, complete with warning bolts of lightning.
They used diggers and metal cutters, and stamped down material by thumping it with the bucket of an excavator.
Once she reached her two story home, her ears were assaulted with the sounds of feet thumping around upstairs.
Success almost grabbed the winner, thumping his shot straight at Boruc. Times, Sunday Times
Eyes began to wander when a bright new quarterback came into town with a Namath smile, a taste for late-game dramatics and a tub-thumping coach who hailed potential at every opportunity. Back in Fashion This Fall: Eli Manning
A small but growing movement known as deschooling, life learning, unschooling, and edu-punk is home-schooling returned to its postwar progressive roots, far from the Bible-thumping mould that has come to dominate the modern image of home-schoolers. Infowars
New Zealand opened their campaign with a thumping win yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.
‘You didn't have to use one of these damn things,’ he said, thumping the monitor on the desk before him.
The Cameroon striker got the first goal after just four minutes with a thumping header that rattled the bottom of the crossbar before landing in the net. The Sun
His challenge is to prove that the disruptive, tub-thumping and sometimes selfish approach will not be at the expense of long-term stability.
The local Anglican churches are under heavy pressure to go in for the happy-clappy bible thumping stuff which the Jensens see as the path to recovery for the Anglican church.
And this is what you call a thumping, 65 percent to 28 percent. CNN Transcript May 13, 2008
I turn to my left and spot a silhouette of a fin in the depths; my heart is thumping. Times, Sunday Times
They had contributed in votes to Narendra Modi and were flush with his thumping victory.
Over his not entirely clean white collar you could see his Adam's apple thumping.
Three students and a teacher made speech one by one and each had his strong point. Regardless of freshman of undergraduate or doctor of literature, they were all tub-thumping.
My heart was thumping wildly but I didn't let my face show any emotion.
However they may lead to palpitations, which is an unpleasant awareness of the heartbeat, often described as a thumping in the chest.
I returned to the pitch with my head pounding and my heart thumping. Times, Sunday Times
The heck with dissonance, what's the German for ‘gigantic thumping irony?’
After packing it down with a lot of treading, thumping, and the use of the big concrete roller, I dumped the gravel/mud mixture back in, to pack back together again and provide a smoothish surface. Snell-Pym » Filling the lake
And to pretend otherwise is simply a loud, thumping, brazen LIE.
Of course round these parts we all love Mr Holland, with his cheeky east-end banter and barrelhouse joanna-thumping style.
Sukhwinder Singh's vociferously throaty and Sunidhi Chauhan's seductively crooned vocals are at the helm of affairs that gets electrified with thumping '' dhol '' beats and pulsating arrangements. Undefined
As an account of a dazzling wartime exploit, the apotheosis of boffinry, the film isn't above a certain amount of tub-thumping, but the director also knows that there are moments when it's the silent tub that makes the most noise.…
To be fool enough to believe a ramping, stamping, thumping lie: that is what you call sincerity! Man and Superman
The marquee now lies in darkness, no thumping bass, or any noise at all to speak of.
And in the bathroom I'd have a field day, heavily thumping the loo seat down every time he left it up.
Trance features as many as 150 beats a minute, coupled with a thumping bass and a variety of sounds ranging from psychedelic bleeps to hard guitar rifts.
My heart was thumping so loudly in my ears I thought it was going to explode.
a bible-thumping Southern Baptist
And that's right, this is the president's first test on the international stage since his party received what he called a thumping in last week's midterm elections. CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2006
This is a coast of colours, of thumping aquamarine swells, fat red grapes and sands as fine and white as Meissen china.
My heart was thumping inside my chest.
Yet when the film ramps up, with the underlying percussive score beginning to race like a thumping heartbeat, it explodes in an all-out orgiastic bloodletting intercut with a joyous dance sequence.
There is a lot of noise offstage, thumping and hammering. Infinite in All Directions
Neither batsman was troubled although Morris always looked the more positive player, thumping 11 fours in his 134 ball unbeaten 98.
A day after that thumping Bush dumped his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who had become a lightning rod for all the dissatisfactions surrounding the Iraq War, and installed in his place the consummate Washington insider, former CIA director Robert Gates. The Longest War
The young inventor stared at the thermograph, his heart thumping wildly. I, TOO, DREAM....
‘We did it,’ screamed Ferns from the starting block, thumping a fist to his heart.
While clearly Teresa did what was necessary - largely to save her own neck - and it is also an interesting story, there is no need and even less justification to turn those events into feminist tub-thumping.
First World War remembrance was never that tub-thumping in the first place.
At two o'clock the music and voices and thumping from the other room stopped, and I thought it was high time to go home, but when I went out there, trailing the blanket behind me, I found them all passed out: Louise face down on the Twister mat, a snoring Ted mountain near the fireplace, my parents spooning together in a corner like Pompeii people. Babies
Last time we met, I kept thumping her on the leg as a way demonstrating my affection and she duffed me up.
Mr Booker defends his opus in a manner which is more good-natured than might reasonably be expected, given the thumping I administered in the original review, and he has other defenders too.
The Australian bundle of tub-thumping energy looked—and behaved—as if he had left his surfboard outside the gates of the All England Club, polarizing fans and players alike with his heart-on-sleeve style and his cries of "C'mon! Hewitt Rolls Back the Years But Cannot Stop Söderling
You could hear the sound of its blades thumping through the air-con vents.
But now my little heart is thumping with joy. Times, Sunday Times
He certainly does not engage in supremacist tub-thumping, because this would rip away the stuff of the world that makes his perspective complete, while keeping his feet on the ground.
We slowly made our way down the final pass, through the Montenegrin/Kosovar interzone at sunset and were rewarded with thumping parties in Prizren celebrating the last night of the Documentary Film Festival. Grif Peterson: Mongol Rally: A Defense of Backroads
Not because so many Americans are ignorant bible-thumping bigots, but because they have a healthy and natural aversion to homosexuality - an aversion *placed there by nature* because it isn't *natural* for people of the same gender to have sexual relations. The Mega Collector's Reluctant Dragon
I'm not immune to a shudder at the thought of people sitting on their fat arses in front of Jeremy Kyle on the flatscreen, sharing a KFC bucket with their pit-bull half-breed, thumping their step-children and drinking my tax money. Attacking the church is a cheap shot | Victoria Coren

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