thud

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Morsell’s parents would hear the thuds from the boys crashing into the wall, as they roughhoused and tried to dunk.

When you reach the bottom, with a thud and rattle, it feels like a triumph.

There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.

In this way he can reach up to the tops of the tallest trees and cut off the cocoanuts; when thud!

Then a sudden sound sent him on to one elbow—the thud of an approaching horse's hoofs.

Heavy steps rang on the bridge over his head, and the thud of their fall was like thunder to the man beneath.

The dull thud of a footfall in the cell above hammers on my head with maddening regularity.

Suddenly, there was a bark followed by a deafening roar and then the thud of a leaping body falling on the ground.

KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJI

The thud of a bar dropped in place punctuated the evening's experience with a glum finality.

A joyous clamor broke out at the man's fall, and redoubled when, with a dull thud, his skull struck the pavement and broke.

SYNONYM OF THE DAYAPRIL 23, 2021

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