| 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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| 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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| 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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| The thwack should have been an early wake-up call but the Minstermen continued to stumble and fumble thereafter. |
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| He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt. |
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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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| The nice thwack of the club hitting the ball is one of the few, if only, notable effects. |
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| Then the thwack of 700 pages hitting the floor jolted me awake again. |
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| If you rap it with your knuckle you hear the thwack of gypsum rather than the ring of cold metal. |
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| Again, aside from the thwack of the balls, it was superbly quiet. |
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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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| 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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| It's a word which sounds like a noise, Miss, like boom, zoom, zonk, splat, thwack,, yes thud is good, crunch, too. |
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| My rum baba had a decent thwack of booze in the sponge, although confusion reigned when I asked what rum they soaked it in. |
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| With an explosive grunt to keep rhythmic time a sound not unlike that emitted by Japanese Noh theatre actors together they thwack the heavy sopping clothes onto smooth stones. |
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| But if comprehensive immigration reform does flop, it will at least present Democrats with a wonderful cudgel with which to thwack their opponents for the next three years. |
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| We have noises made from rubber hoses and lads come clomping onto stage with oil drums for boots and sticks to thwack them with. |
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| He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins. |
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| Supporting riot control weapons is controversial, but if you're out tossing petrol bombs then you flipping deserve a good thwack with a plastic bullet. |
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