crump
Example Sentences
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Ghost doesn't flinch at the crump of a shell landing nearby.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023
Finally scrumplicate which evokes the positive "scrumptious" but probably depends more on "scrumple" to crush and the crump of violent opposition.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2014
It was more of a crump and you felt it through the rig.
From BBC • Jul. 6, 2013
In far-off England monitors on the German frequencies, listening for G�ring's gutturral voice, 'heard instead the sudden crump of bombs, a confusion of muffled shouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Here!—Oh!" piped the B.M. as a crump shook the receiver out of his hand.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 by Various
