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

Who’d have thunk that a novelty song from 1960, sung originally by Brian Hyland, would have a proud place in two long-running British TV series 64 years after it was a No. 1 hit?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024

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

He opened his fingers and let the axe thunk to the ground.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin