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thunk

[ US /ˈθənk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dull hollow sound
    the basketball made a thunk as it hit the rim

How To Use thunk In A Sentence

  • Hoodathunk (sponsored by the Church of Holy Beer) says: actually, I meant to say ‘A mime is a terrible thing to face’. Think Progress » Anti-Immigrant Leader’s Bodyguard Reportedly Assaulted Mimes Who Were Blowing ‘Hateful Whistles’ At DC Rally
  • Death, when it came, was the result of a slow paralysis rather than an abrupt thunk. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • The goshawk landed with a thunk and then leapt up to take off, only to bounce straight into the front net.
  • Nothing will make a driver stop faster than a resounding 'thunk' reverberating inside their aluminum can. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Increasing Dignity of Commuting by Bicycle
  • With Goulet having expired on the hi-fi, the soundtrack of Ferrell's shot- thunk (cue ball), clack (eight ball), gadunga (corner pocket)-filled the room. The New Yorker
  • It skidded across the slick surface and fell off the other side with a sickly thunk.
  • I heard this "thunk", and as I was starting to get up to see what it was, there was this "crash". Dogs...You Gotta Love 'Em!
  • I shut the car door waiting for the satisfying thunk and heard a chord from a cheap guitar with a broken string. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • After I fell asleep I must have pushed him off the sofa; I heard a thunk!
  • He walks the field in a circle of death, pumping the lever action with a metal-on-metal thunk after each animal.
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