- present participle of thump.
thumping
Example Sentences
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At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The song flips both “Romeo” and “Always Be There” by aughts-defining electronic duo Basement Jaxx and turns it into a thumping dance pop tune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
As exit polls put the Alternative for Germany's vote share at a thumping 44 percent, jubilant scenes erupted at a post-election party in Magdeburg, capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Although the stock recovered later, it still ended the day with another thumping 10% loss.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Babulya was knitting a lumpy scarf near the oven, and Dyedka was grumping his way through Papa’s old history book at the table, thumping his wooden legs impatiently on the floor.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
