crump
Example Sentences
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Ghost doesn't flinch at the crump of a shell landing nearby.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023
We hear the drills and the crump of the digger.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2023
It was more of a crump and you felt it through the rig.
From BBC • Jul. 6, 2013
With a crump of rending metal, the sheer bow of the 27,100-ton carrier crashed into the starboard side of the 1,630-ton destroyer-minesweeper Hobson.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was all very muddy and riddled with shrapnel or bits of crump, so I just cut off the only sound bit.
From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Henderson, Keith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.