thwack
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The arrow hurdled forward, unleashing an audible woosh followed by a distant thwack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
The following “RV Envy” adds the thwack of a full drum kit to the mix, and the staticky howl of the hurdy-gurdy is as hectic as a smashed window triggering a building’s alarm system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: I think what Judge Burroughs did was quite remarkable—she took a thwack at Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh in the opinion itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
With a hop, skip and a thwack, the age of the Chloe Kelly is upon us.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
Marapachi hit his forehead with a satisfying thwack.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
It lacks the control of Guadagnino’s earlier work — or rather, I should say, it takes subtlety and restraint and thwacks them over the fence and into the bushes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
“We’d also record it above ground to get the actual sound of the impact,” Mangini said, demonstrating his method for me with a few sharp thwacks into the Zuma Beach sand.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
No crack of bats or thwacks of balls popping into mitts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
It thwacks into my open glove, falls to the ground, and three of their runners score.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
His mother, wife, sister and sons thwacked the trees with sticks and rakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
When Neil Wagner tried to bounce him, Brook cleared the front leg and thwacked the ball away, baseball-style.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
Russian jets streaked overhead and helicopters thwacked ominously.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2022
In New York City, for example, volunteer crews patrol city sidewalks morning after morning during migration seasons, cataloging birds that thwacked into buildings.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2022
The children gasped as the boat flew up into the air and Maalu thwacked back into the ocean.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
In the U.S. alone, somewhere between several hundred million and one billion birds die every year after thwacking into windows, many of them beckoned by interior lights.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2022
The sound of two sneaker soles thwacking a drum fill on the ground as Stubbs tried to regain his balance.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
The edge of a knife is a carefully tapered compression of metal layers, so the thwacking sends the atomically aligned edge into disarray, or worse — it can chip tiny divots into the metal.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2022
Her mother-in-law, Sojar Owhal, spent years on plantations, hunched over, thwacking stalks with a machete, then balancing bundles on her head to load onto trucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
He was thwacking his paws in the muck, chasing the sudsy waves.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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