How To Use Thwack In A Sentence
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Before I knew it, I was trying my hand on the local real-life links and thwacking a white ball with a metal stick right down a fairway.
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She thwacked a lonesome pebble into the until now deathly still waters of the picturesque campus lake with a black platform trainer which could have had a brick wedged between sole and tread but at least made her an inch taller.
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So she took a stick and started thwacking my thighs like she was threshing wheat.
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There's something really enjoyable about chunking the carriage back and forth, hearing the satisfying thwack of type on paper and platen - it's cool.
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Then did this fool of a husband and his mad wife join together, and, falling on the doctor and the surgeon, did so scratch, bethwack, and bang them that they were left half dead upon the place, so furious were the blows which they received.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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He has no probs getting around at night thwacking the bad guys who terrorise his neighbourhood.
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I was swimming along, and as I was making the turn at lap 46, a hand thwacked me on the head.
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As he settled himself in the saddle for a long ride he heard the drumming of hoofs, the hollow "thwack" of chaparral against wooden stirrups, the whoop of
Waifs and Strays Part 1
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The crowning touch was added to this delirious moment of festival by the simply scandalous distribution of golden coin, _golden_ mind you, which attendants clothed in every colour of an Egyptian sunset, and mounted upon diminutive, but pure bred donkeys, threw right and left with no stinting hand, to the distribution of which largesse responded shrill laughter, and still shriller cries, and thwack of stick on dark brown pate and cries of pain upon the meeting of youthful ivories in the aged ankle or wrist.
Desert Love
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Find a picnic spot under the trees and sozzle the day away to the thwack of leather on willow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the thwack of 700 pages hitting the floor jolted me awake again.
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But they told us they did as they ought, seeing their design was to breech, lash, and bethwack Fortune.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Perhaps a well-timed thwack with a swatter works?
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He felt a sting in his left ear but didn't really feel the blow, just heard the thwack.
SPIDERTOWN
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Bernie continued madly thwacking my back with his hand, while waving the other in the air and shrieking, ‘She's alive!’
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The keys have a feel somewhere between the Pro and the 101, with a solid click but not the thwack of the IBM.
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That opening sentence originally read ‘Scent and smoke and sweat hit the taste buds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning’ - a limp travesty of the polished version.
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At the last moment she turned parallel to the chukar's line of flight and hit it from behind with the solid "thwack" of a large-caliber bullet striking flesh.
The Coffin Dancer
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For they binde the heade, and the fiete of the dead together with witthes of Paliurus, and then setting it vp vpon some hilly place, haue a good sporte to all to bethwacke it with stones, vntle they lie heaped ouer the corps.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Behind him, he heard the even thwack, thwack, thwack of the dye block slapped down on the cloth squares.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Jumping on top of him, she began thwacking him with it in every possible place - the head, the face, the chest, the arms, the ears, the legs, the torso, everywhere.
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I listened to the thwack of the metal balls.
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The resulting ‘thwack’ echoes louder than a thousand spankings.
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Diversity might include free-thinking, liberal-minded schools, alongside those that favour the firm thwack of the three Rs above all else.
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But just as the company is getting back to normalcy, another downturn in traveller numbers following the recent events in the US thwacked it again.
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A good meaty "thwack" means the thrower needs to go hide for a few seconds.
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Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
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Sitting at the computer I saw something large and dark fall past my peripheral vision followed by a dull thwack.
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And then the smart thwack of her hand on my shoulder and I was ‘it’.
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During that half awake dozing between thwacks, I often drift into lurid dreams.
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The sound of repeated thwacks lures you to the roasted-duck counter, where a small man with a big cleaver reduces a whole mahogany-colored bird into a pile of steamy, mouthwatering chunks in seconds.
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Sophia thwacked her hard on her back, and asked her concernedly, ‘Are you alright?’
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Find a picnic spot under the trees and sozzle the day away to the thwack of leather on willow.
Times, Sunday Times
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I spot him near a door to what looks like the kitchen, chatting with a woman somewhere near my age who laughs at something he's said and gives him a playful thwack on the arm that has flirtation written all over it.
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Guys are dumb, it takes us a couple of thwacks before we stop hitting our heads on walls.
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Defiant newsagent Tina Harfield sent a would-be armed robber on his bike after thwacking him with an axe handle.
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Isaacs' fruitful usage of the ball meant the score soon multiplied to 2-as he royally thwacked a loose ball into the corner of the net.
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Nestled among a thick area of pine trees and beautiful red and purple flowers, Harrington blasted his second shot only to hear a thumping "thwack" a moment later as his ball slammed into a tree.
Undefined
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Again Nick jumped and this time, as it passed, he gave the bull a great thwack on its rump with the sign.
THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
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Again, aside from the thwack of the balls, it was superbly quiet.
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Four minutes after making his entrance, the wafer-like winger was thwacking Neilson from behind to concede a preventable penalty.
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At the last second, she twisted her blade so the flat of it hit his head with a resounding 'thwack'.
Ultimate List
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For a few short weeks each autumn, in playgrounds across the land, the tinny buzz of the Nokia and the iPod is supplanted by the sound of youngsters thwacking their nuts.
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A bit off to the east I can hear a dull ‘thwack’ sound as one of my hunting partners builds himself a little blind.
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He could just see a black shape flapping off, a bird as a large as a wolfhound at the least, thwacking the air with huge wings.
A TIME OF WAR
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Sir Michael Peat has been described as the prince's right-hand man, leaving me to think that Charles should be using his left hand to give him a good thwack about the head.
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I’ll hamper, bethwack, and belabour all the devils, now I have some vine-leaves in my shoes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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He felt a sting in his left ear but didn't really feel the blow, just heard the thwack.
SPIDERTOWN
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He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt.
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The latest heavyweight report investigating pay inequalities between the genders landed last week, with a huge thwack, on news editors' desks up and down the country.
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‘We've offered to improve the road, but the Navy won't let us,’ he shouted above the chirping of tiny frogs and the thwack of thick tropic brush against the windows.
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It may not be long before the sound of willow thwacking leather reverberates across the middle kingdom.
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The thwack should have been an early wake-up call but the Minstermen continued to stumble and fumble thereafter.
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From a sheath mounted next to the foremast he pulled a long sword and, laying the smoke down on an air vent, with one thwack cut off the end.
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How about video of the owie he suffered when he thwacked his head on the backboard on an alley-oop late in the Los Angeles Clippers' 98-90 victory over Minnesota?
Blake Griffin smacks his head on the backboard
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Again Nick jumped and this time, as it passed, he gave the bull a great thwack on its rump with the sign.
THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
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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...
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I heard the thwack of the whip against the horse's side.
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Racquet connected with ball with an almighty thwack.
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‘I hate that,’ she mumbled as she thwacked the ball.
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Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
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Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
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The cop carried a stick, ready to thwack anybody who offended his ear or eye.
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And then I thwacked my left knee on the washing machine this afternoon while I was cleaning out the rat cage, and it is all red and lumpy and it, too, hurts when I walk on it.
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Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
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Mugabe is often seen sipping tea, eating cake and clapping at Harare Sports Club while revelling in the magical thwack of leather against willow.
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Jones; “but that will not happen, unless you had the same birchen argument to convince me.” — “Then I must tell you plainly,” said Thwackum, “I am resolved to discover the wicked wretch.” — “And I must tell you plainly,” returned Jones, “I am resolved you shall not.”
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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By cob's body, I'll hamper, bethwack, and belabour all the devils, now I have some vine-leaves in my shoes.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
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With a huge backlift, he tried to hit the ball - thwack!
Times, Sunday Times
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Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
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They're coming up shortly after a federal judge thwacked the Pentagon's knuckles.
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She was thwacking a button on the wall with all her might, and cursing wildly under her breath.
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According to Tristan Jakob-Hoff, Chailly has taken his own pencil to the score and replaced the single-note Thwack! with a "short, anacrusis before each note - 'buh-duh-DUM!
ArchitectureChicago PLUS
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The only sound is the thwack of a Corsican mountain breeze.
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The nice thwack of the club hitting the ball is one of the few, if only, notable effects.
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The rest of the travel sector was also under the weather with Stagecoach (LSE: SGC) thwacked by a poor performance at its US coach operation.
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Employing one of London's brainiest chefs, Blueprint Café's Jeremy Lee, as "cookery consultant" has meant that, though the preparation of food is mimed, every knife stroke, whisk flick and thwack of an omelet pan is the correct gesture; there can never have been a movement director with more to do than Aline David in this production.
As Fresh as the First Day
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Then, grunting with effort, they lunge furiously, colliding with resounding thwacks, red-faced and panting.
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Mea culpa 'thwack', mea culpa 'thwack' (oo that feels good), mea culpa 'thwack'
Army Rumour Service
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Those cute floppy paws are like that because they're spring-loaded killing machines, ideal for thwacking seals to death.
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We have, on the one hand, an arrogant, unqualified celebrity, and on the other, a burly guy who seems to have a problem with thwacking women around.
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Behind him, he heard the even thwack, thwack, thwack of the dye block slapped down on the cloth squares.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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It's no longer the crisp "thwack" of the persimmon, or the cool "ping" of the stainless steel.
About.com Golf
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Then the woodcutter let his axe fly— Thwack! Everyone heard it.