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

There's scarcely an inch of ground that isn't a crump hole.

From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Henderson, Keith