thunk

Example Sentences

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I came to love the satisfying thunk of the cleaver hitting the cutting board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

The Sheriff’s Department admitted in a news release that the gun might have actually fallen out of a squad car — thunk — onto the streets of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

Not twigs, mind you, but big, heavy limbs that would fall straight down with a thunk and a shoosh of dead leaves onto my front lawn.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

And who would've thunk that at the time?

From Salon • May 16, 2023

When we heard the last thunk of rocket remnants hitting slack, we went out and began collecting the pieces.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam