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Sentence Examples The unexpected attack caught him off guard and he landed on the porch with a thud. She fell to the ground with a soft thud, blacking out before even hitting the burning sands. After a few second, he heard a resounding smack and a thud as Valshar obviously hit the wall. An owl hooted mysteriously, but was silenced by the sound of a low snarl followed by a thud. With that, he opened the door and walked away, but not before he slammed it hard, resounding echoes of the loud thud vibrating into the room. Many players enjoy the satisfying thud of a third dart in the centre bull for its flashiness alone. If I've got 20-30 pages open, which is by no means unusual, then I'm going to be a deeply sad bunny if they all just vanish with a thud. The thud of the wound, the squelch of the intrusion of iron into flesh was punctuated with the gasp of the Vikings. Much laughter has been heard, with the staccato of chopping and the thud of pestles meeting mortars. A heavy thud had come against my door, and now I heard hard breathing and the dull stamp of muffled feet. There was a crack, louder than the sound of her wrists snapping, then a thud. Finally he gave a careless shrug, dropping the man's head with a thud that predicted a headache the next day. She held up a hand, stopping it dead midway through, and it dropped like a stone, hitting the ground with a thud and lying like a dead animal. A neighbour reported hearing a thud that sounded like a garbage bag being dropped. He stripped the leather gloves from his hands and pounded his fist into his steel palm with a clanking thud. Suddenly a thud knocked the shuttle ninety degrees as the crew inside were bashed against the ceiling of the small craft. I recall that a teacher was standing in front of me when suddenly there was a big thud. Altair shouted as he was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud, his horse pacing anxiously beside him. With a resounding thud, Hoss set the block of seasoned cedar up on the big chopping block. The dull thud of horse hooves on the packed earth changed suddenly to the loud clacking of iron horseshoes on a paved road. Show More Sentences There was a clatter of footsteps in the corridor, the thud of boots on the stairs. I hit the earth with a dull thud, and for a while I just lay there, savoring the feel of real, clean dirt. A thud echoed through the room, and the sound of metal clinking on porcelain could be heard downstairs. He turned and dropped his hooves from off the countertop, and they clonked onto the ground with a hard thud. Footsteps sounded on the old floorboards, one set shuffling, and a steady thud that might be a peg leg or a cane. There's a small barely audible thud as the plastique knocks the lock off the door. A few weeks ago, while at the range, I heard the thud my ear muffs made when they were knocked to the concrete firing line. I heard the dull thud of two feet coming over the wall, then the rattle of the flywire opening. There was a second of hesitation, possibly as Meghan was preparing for another punch, and then a creak and a thud. There was a resounding thud as the golem pounded one of the steel poles into the ground less than half a foot from Tim. I darted down the path within the shadows cast by the trees across my path, dappling me with moonlight with every other thud of my foot. We were elated when, with a slight thud, our car nudged into the warmth of the terminal station. The troll let out a growl of fury as it dropped the tainted sword with a loud thud. A moment later there was a thud as Meghan struck the side of the guillotine, and the blade wobbled with a faint squealing sound. Outside could be heard the creak and thud of damaged trees, and the thrashing of errant guttering and plastic garden furniture. The beams pulled them in closer until a dull thud sounded throughout the thick hulls of the salvage vessels. What that means for people nearby is that nights are accompanied by the sound of a dull thud, boom-booming its way around the neighbourhood. He reached down and picked him up by his doublet, throwing him into a tree with a thud. The mug went down with a thud upon the thick wooden table, the remaining dregs never to be touched again. The three of them then turned to look at the subject of their topic, just in time to see a grey address book fall out with a thud. Show More Sentences After a few minutes the wagon jolted and moved on the track and then there was a sudden thud that almost made Bligh cry out in fright. Miller would have dismissed the thud if it were not for the unusual whine that the engine had developed soon after the thud. I swooped down on them, making the rat-a-tat sound of the turret guns and the thud and boom of the bombs. It banged against the wall with a resounding thud that echoed through the ship. Unused to such harsh treatment, the horse reared back on its hind legs, unseating Jack Foster who landed with a thud on his backside. She landed with a thud, and rolled, tucking her feet underneath her as the wind rushed out of her again. Thus, in Mrs. Kerry's brainless and witless offhand yet pregnant remark, we hear the sick thud of the other shoe dropping. Curious, Katie sat up to see what it was when she heard a distinct thud in the alley behind the building. Across the territory, beaches were filled with the thud of drum beats and the yells of participating teams and their supporters. We were then greeted by a loud thud against the door and a very loud voice yelling at us. Without looking up he threw a book that landed with a thud on the table in front of Evelyn. Ice falling off the trees outside, landing on the ground with a thud that makes me jump out of my seat. I hit the floor with a resounding thud that echoed across the room, the phone still in my hand. They were thrown off balance as they hit the floor with a loud resounding thud. Mr. O'Brien makes a brave leap in the dark and lands with a resounding thud. He dismounted on the left side, and his leather boots gave a loud thud when they hit the ground. Simultaneously, a loud thud reverberated from a floor above the waiting room. The door gave way easily under her light bodyweight and Piper fell with a thud on the floor. Chandra dropped down from the bottom rung of the rope ladder with a light thud. As the heavy door fell into place he felt thud after thud after sickening thud as the loathsome creatures outside crashed into the building. Show More Sentences Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier jets, of the Royal Air Force, scream overhead loosing off powerful projectiles which thud into the targets below. I lugged my heavy bags upstairs and dropped them with a thud in the middle of the room. I heard a thud as he must of fallen from his bed, then the lazy shuffle as he proceeded to walk to the door. With a heavy thud she slammed into the hat rack, which teetered and tottered before tipping toward her. I bit back the urge to scream, as the wind whistled past my face and I braced myself for a sickening thud and terrible landing. Rowdy yelps spill out of the plain stucco house in Tarzana that murmurs with the dull thud of bass. She heard the soft thud of something hitting the ground, and crawled back to pick it up. The elevator slammed into the ground with a dull thud, and the doors screeched open. For a few moments, the only sound was the heavy thud of the ball as it pounded, rhythmically, against pale walls. He told how he was with a friend when they heard the plane's engine revving, then a dull thud. One poor soldier crashed into the ground at breakneck speed with a dull thud which brought a sharp intake of breath from the crowd. She threw her bag across the room and the dull thud assured her it had hit the floor somewhere close to the wall. Every so often, the roar would drop to a murmur, only to swell again after the next ball hit the ground with a muffled thud. He and friends were play-fighting with the clubs when there was a thud and he fell to the ground. He and the coffee table hit the ground with a loud thud and the sound for breaking wood. A scream arose from the foliage and a thud was heard as a French soldier hit the hard ground. A dull thud echoed all around him and the creature looked wildly around at its pack. Moyes drops to the ground with a sickening thud to the stunned gasps of the Lancashire crowd. The thud of more overhead explosions covered the thunk of the boats' front ramps slapping down on the wet sand beneath them. It made a thud and latched into place, and she let out a bored, tired sigh. Show More Sentences Jeremy slides into his chair and Kasey sets the bucket with a dull thud on the floor. That metallic thud you heard just now was a metaphorical mic drop reverberating from Glendale. The crack of willow on leather was replaced by the thud of fists on jaws as drunken spectators traded blows when players came off the pitch. A scampering noise beat across the ceiling before a little trapdoor opened with a dull thud, previously completely invisible to all in the bar. She tripped over her own foot, falling down the stairs and landing with a loud thud. Marcy stumbled backwards and tripped over her own foot, falling on her bottom with a thud and nearly toppling over the edge of the rock again. You shut your biology book with a thud, and stared at him from across the table. The width of the pavement plus about six inches, as Matt and the cart hit the fence about halfway up with a sickening, bone-crunching thud. Suddenly, there's a bright yellow flash, a sickening thud as the shock waves explode and shards of glass scream past your face. The limp body fell to the ground with a sickening thud, splattering blood all over the road. He made sure he wasn't being watched and leaped over the veranda, landing with a soft thud on the mossy ground. A fourth squeezes up next to the most studious of them, dropping her book bag down with a thud. He was shaken out of his thoughts by a thud, as another burning arrow was fired at the broken window. I don't know if you can hear the gunfire around me, as well as the thud of artillery, but there have been scattered gun battles, as we've been going through. She dashed down the hall and threw open the door to her room with a thud. She landed with a loud thud and a crack came from her ankle. Obviously, if it were just Democrats, the Republicans would have had the votes to pass the thud bill. You could hear the clicking in the back and when you opened it, it had a thud to it. There was a sound of claws scratching against stone, then a heavy thud. Most landed with a thud, but some did well enough to eke out another contract. Show More Sentences And the higher the perch from which someone falls, the bigger the thud he makes when he splatters on the concrete of reality. I heard a small hollow thud from behind me and a little laugh. The worker hauls the animal out of the water and tosses it with a dull thud into a rotating drum like a table-top spin-dryer to remove the animal's coat. He hit the ground with a loud thud and the crunch of pine needles. At least a dozen times over the past two years I've heard the sickening thud and tortured tire screech that signals a fresh wreck in the intersection. There was a heave, then a thud that signified that the craft had beached. Johnathan traced her with his eyes until she was out of sight, then sat up, unstrapping the gun and putting it onto the counter with a dull thud that no one heard. The guns raised in unison, the sighting of the game, the rounds of shots, the thud as a prey is felled, and then the silence. His legs immediately gave way and he rolled backwards with a loud thud, landing sprawled, suffering from chronically injured pride, in an ungainly heap. He unlaced his heavy boots and let them thud onto the floor in a heap. Next minute she heard a dull thud and all sound from the back ceased. She fell backwards, landing with a sickening thud, and didn't move. I winced each time it came down with a sickening thud into the gory mass. For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud. Large, ungainly and hanging onto my thick specs, I'd leap over a vault with my free hand, landing with a resonant thud on the other side, and I loved it. The deep thud of boots resonated throughout the long passageway. Soon the ancient valley echoed to the sounds of grunting throwers, whose shots raised puffs of dust as they landed with a thud on the bare, sun-baked earth. The building came down in minutes with a resounding bang and thud. Slowly the the boat came into dock with the moorings and a slight thud resounded through out the ship as the cuffs locked down the ship holding it in place. So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud. Show More Sentences The resounding thud of the door closing was the next thing she heard. There was a thunderclap and heavy rain started to thud on the carpet. This time, after all the chat about non-events, undramatic behaviour and what seems like 100 years of solitude, the thud causes both of us to jump. You would have been confronted with the dull thud of abstract nouns and adjectives sprinkled about like chocolate chips on the chocolate icing of a chocolate cake. The down-low thud of the washtub bass combines with minimal drumming and washboard rhythms to form the backbone of the Haints. Thud acts like a dynamic bass EQ and is good for instruments and vocals. It's a word which sounds like a noise, Miss, like boom, zoom, zonk, splat, thwack,, yes thud is good, crunch, too. The waves break into spray, dash and rumble and thud below your feet. Lieutenant Chris Williams, of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, felt a thud on his rib cage during a fire fight in Helmand, Afghanistan. Pulling on a pair of trackie pants and a jumper, she quietly unclipped the flyscreen and pushed up the old window and climbed through, landing outside with a hollow thud. There were lighter moments as well when he rubbed his stubbled cheeks to create a grating sound or thumped his chin with his fist to produce a thud. Examples from Classical Literature The first indication of an earthquake is often a sharp thud, signaling the arrival of compressional waves. But gradually the sounds died down, till there came the heavy-footed thud of the beaky. There was a heavy thud, the rolling of a Black Mass on the ground, a gasp, a growl! There was a thud as his fist hit the rickety, squeaking table in the center of the room. First one paw and then another relaxed, until, with a thud, the coati and iguana struck the ground together both stone-dead. This time the impact was so great the door could not withstand it, and down it came with a thud. There came a swoosh through the night, a dull thud, a blinding flash and roar that paled the search-rays into insignificance. These words were confirmed by a thud as of a fist striking the kitchen table. There was the sound of a low growl as of an uncaged animal, then a scuffling sound followed by a thud. And it was in this second that Denby uppercut him so that he fell with a thud to the floor. There was a sharp, distinct snap of a pneumatic pistol, and the thud of a bullet. The heavy thud of a recoilless.75 came from the room behind him and a foot-long section of metal window frame leaped outward. The thud of them over the sodded prairies was rapidly decreasing. Thud, thud, we could hear the impact of their great heads, and their bellowing shook the pans on the kitchen shelves. The hissing and crackling behind me, the explosive thud as each fresh tree burst into flame, left little time for reflection. There was the sound of a dull thud, the crushing of heavy bone, and the sentry slumped into a silent, inanimate lump of clay. Every now and then the moth, which was now grey of wing and shiny of thorax, whizzed over their heads, and hit the lamps with a thud. Suddenly I heard a thud and a hissing behind me, and, looking round, sprang to my feet with a cry of horror. I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud. It had toppled over the brim of the cylinder and fallen into the pit, with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather. Show More Sentences Even in stocking feet they made a soft thud with each footfall. You've no idea what an eerie noise a great drop of rain falling with a mushy thud on a bare floor makes in the night. Nothing was to be heard except the soft thud of irons on the ironing pad. Mrs. kip, hearing the thud of his jump, turned her head, surprised. As I took hold of the handle of the door I heard an exclamation, oddly truncated at the end, and a click and a thud. In the sudden thud, hiss, and glare of the igniting trees, the panic-stricken crowd seems to have swayed hesitatingly for some moments. Meanwhile, UCLA senior forward Nikola Dragovic's career ended with a thud, a clank, a miss and an air ball. They fell back, in dismay, the log dropping to the ground with a thud. Behind them now came the clank and thud of a score of overtaking feet. The weak-kneed wastrel let fall the box with a thud upon the floor. As he tumbles out of his nest and lands with an almighty thud in the village below, Plop begins a voyage of discovery with an array of new friends. There was a machine which stamped out the iron plates, and then another which, with a mighty thud, mashed them to the shape of the sitting-down portion of the American farmer. Sheer down, screaming, seventy feet he fell, smashing to the earth with an audible thud and crunch, his body rebounding slightly and settling down again. Far away to the southeast, marking the quiet, we heard the Martians hooting to one another, and then the air quivered again with the distant thud of their guns. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of thud? Words that rhyme with thud What is the past tense of thud? What is the plural of thud? What is the adverb for thud? What is the noun for thud? Translations for thud Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Thucydides Thu thruway thrusts thrusting thrusters thudded thudding thuddingly thuds thug thuggee 4-letter Words Starting With t th thu